Alex Covers More Anti Free Speech Attacks from Our Government on The Alex Jones Show 1/2

Calls Increase for Government to Regulate Internet Journalists and Bloggers




Kurt Nimmo
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June 2, 2010

Outrage is rising over a Michigan lawmaker's plan to introduce a bill to license bloggers and internet-based journalists. Walter Lippman argued that the people are incapable of accurately understanding the complex "unseen environment" of public affairs and the modern state without a professional and "specialized class" of technocrat-journalists.




"State Sen. Bruce Patterson is introducing legislation that will regulate reporters much as the state regulates hairdressers, auto mechanics and plumbers. Patterson, who also practices constitutional law, says the general public is being overwhelmed by an increasing number of media outlets — traditional, online and citizen generated — and an even greater amount of misinformation," Fox News reported on May 28. "Legitimate media sources are critically important to our government," he said.

The establishment idea that "legitimate" media sources "are critically important to our government" is hardly a new idea.

Obama's man at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, is on record as advocating holding blogs and alternative internet news media "responsible" for the information they publish. Sunstein penned a book entitled "On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done." Sunstein's book is essentially a blueprint for imposing online censorship. Kyle Smith, writing for the New York Post, notes that Sunstein would force bloggers and others not connected to the corporate media to prove criticism of the government and government officials.

"The litigation expense would be daunting," writes Smith, "the time necessary to defend a posting (or an article) would work to the benefit of the public figure being criticized since the delay would probably allow the figure to win an election before the truth 'won out'. The mere threat of retaliatory actions would be enough to dissuade many commentators from daring to issue a word of criticism or skepticism" and would result in self-censorship.

In order to enforce the government world view and its demands for political correctness, Sunstein has suggested infiltration of the blogosphere and dispatching covert agents into "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups."

Sunstein's program would target those advocating false "conspiracy theories," in other words "an attempt to explain an event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role."

"Sunstein's closeness to the President, as well as the highly influential position he occupies, merits an examination of the mentality behind what he wrote," writes Glenn Greenwald.

Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, also shares the mentality calling for government imposed censorship, specifically as it relates to the government assuming authority to prohibit corporations from engaging in political speech such as publishing pamphlets that advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office.

In March, Infowars.com reported on Rutgers University law professor Ellen Goodman, who is a "distinguished" visiting scholar with the FCC's Future of Media Project. Goodman submitted a proposal for a government takeover plan targeted at the internet called the National Broadband Plan
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[7895225789]

Why so many people hate Alex? maybe because the truth hurts?

[GinSoakedStranger]

Australian government has shelved plans for Internet Filter....YEAH!!!1 (yes it's an election year)

[sallytudor]

AMEN, GOVERNMENT DOES NOT GIVE ANYTHING FREE, WITHOUT TAKING CONTROL OF US!! GOD BLESS ALEX JONES, AND KEEP HIM SAFE FROM HARM! VOTE NO TO GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP OF OUR COMMUNICATIONS!!

[Mr30scratch]

Jones is the only one speaking out against the whole picture. No one else is speaking like him.

[slippymal]

i live in the uk and none of these sites are blocked they are only banned on wireless hotspots

[mainmedic]

@TheArmy19D BAA BAA Sheep

[TheArmy19D]

@GovernmentSham912 Why read it when you can flame paranoia?

[TheArmy19D]

@7895225789 Probably because he is an idiot and sheeple will follow him off a cliff