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Bill Clinton: Create Internet agency

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 5/13/11 5:03 PM EDT

Bill Clinton doesn’t like all the misinformation and rumors floating on the Internet. And he thinks the United Nations or the U.S. government should create an agency to do something about it.

“It would be a legitimate thing to do,” Clinton said in an interview airing Friday on CNBC.

The agency, Clinton said, would “have to be totally transparent about where the money came from” and would have to be “independent” because “if it’s a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the internet.”

“Let’s say the U.S. did it, it would have to be an independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else because people wouldn’t think you were just censoring the news and giving a different falsehood out,” Clinton said.

“That is, it would be like, I don’t know, National Public Radio or BBC or something like that, except it would have to be really independent and they would not express opinions, and their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors” he said. “And also, they would also have to have citations so that they could be checked in case they made a mistake. Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it’s a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money.”

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Liberal Internet Police Proposal

[thundley4]

I'm surprised that Obama hasn't ceded control of the internet to the UN already. Let's try this first. Put shock collars on every politician that activate when they tell a lie or partial truth.

[DefiantSix]

I'm surprised that Obama hasn't ceded control of the internet to the UN already. Let's try this first. Put shock collars on every politician that activate when they tell a lie or partial truth.

Now THAT would be worth watching C-SPAN for! All 536 of them (in the Executive and Legislative branches) twitching on the House floor like they'd been tazered.  Hell, I'd pay the pay-per-view fee to see that.

[JohnnyReb]

Now THAT would be worth watching C-SPAN for! All 536 of them (in the Executive and Legislative branches) twitching on the House floor like they'd been tazered.  Hell, I'd pay the pay-per-view fee to see that.

Hell man, you're already paying for it....but I would chip in a little extra if I had a controller that I could finger every once in awhile.

[docstew]

I'm surprised that Obama hasn't ceded control of the internet to the UN already. Let's try this first. Put shock collars on every politician that activate when they tell a lie or partial truth.

A possible problem: Could the country afford the power bill with all these shock collars activated all the time?  You know pols won't learn not to lie, just how to take the pain.

[DefiantSix]

A possible problem: Could the country afford the power bill with all these shock collars activated all the time?  You know pols won't learn not to lie, just how to take the pain.

That's where the turning C-SPAN into a pay per view site to watch 'em froth and flop around comes into play.

[JohnnyReb]

I bet Bill has the perfect person to head this up in mind, Hillary.

[DefiantSix]

I bet Bill has the perfect person to head this up in mind, Hillary.

I guess this helps his case, but I can never think of Hillary without remembering this in the same context:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ[/youtube]

[SouthernMan]

The only way to get misinformation off the internet is to prevent liberals and Democrats from entering the super highway!