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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Thor on April 28, 2009, 11:00:15 AM
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U.S. regulatory czar nominee wants Net 'Fairness Doctrine'
Cass Sunstein sees Web as anti-democratic, proposed 24-hour delay on sending e-mail
Cass Sunstein
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period.
The revelations about Cass Sunstein, Obama's friend from the University of Chicago Law School and nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, come in a new book by Brad O'Leary, "Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech." OIRA will oversee regulation throughout the U.S. government.
Sunstein also has argued in his prolific literary works that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing.
"A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government," he wrote. "Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom's name."
It's time to put up or shut up, America. Literally. Get the book that shows how to fight the assault on your freedom of speech!
Sunstein first proposed the notion of imposing mandatory "electronic sidewalks" for the Net. These "sidewalks" would display links to opposing viewpoints. Adam Thierer, senior fellow and director of the Center for Digital Media Freedom at the Progress and Freedom Center, has characterized the proposal as "The Fairness Doctrine for the Internet."
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"Apparently in Sunstein's world, people have many rights, but one of them, it seems, is not the right to be left alone or seek out the opinions one desires," Thierer wrote.
Later, Sunstein rethought his proposal, explaining that it would be "too difficult to regulate [the Internet] in a way that would respond to those concerns." He also acknowledged that it was "almost certainly unconstitutional."
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Perhaps Sunstein's most novel idea regarding the Internet was his proposal, in his book "Nudge," written with Richard Thaler, for a "Civility Check" for e-mails and other online communications.
"The modern world suffers from insufficient civility," they wrote. "Every hour of every day, people send angry e-mails they soon regret, cursing people they barely know (or even worse, their friends and loved ones). A few of us have learned a simple rule: don't send an angry e-mail in the heat of the moment. File it, and wait a day before you send it. (In fact, the next day you may have calmed down so much that you forget even to look at it. So much the better.) But many people either haven't learned the rule or don’t always follow it. Technology could easily help. In fact, we have no doubt that technologically savvy types could design a helpful program by next month."
That's where the "Civility Check" comes in.
"We propose a Civility Check that can accurately tell whether the e-mail you're about to send is angry and caution you, 'warning: this appears to be an uncivil e-mail. do you really and truly want to send it?'" they wrote. "(Software already exists to detect foul language. What we are proposing is more subtle, because it is easy to send a really awful e-mail message that does not contain any four-letter words.) A stronger version, which people could choose or which might be the default, would say, 'warning: this appears to be an uncivil e-mail. this will not be sent unless you ask to resend in 24 hours.' With the stronger version, you might be able to bypass the delay with some work (by inputting, say, your Social Security number and your grandfather’s birth date, or maybe by solving some irritating math problem!)."
Sunstein's nomination to the powerful new position will require Senate approval. He is almost certain to face other questions about his well-documented controversial views:
* In a 2007 speech at Harvard he called for banning hunting in the U.S.
* In his book "Radicals in Robes," he wrote: "[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms."
* In his 2004 book, "Animal Rights," he wrote: "Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives …"
* In "Animal Rights: A Very Short Primer," he wrote "[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, in scientific experiments, and in agriculture."
"As one of America's leading constitutional scholars, Cass Sunstein has distinguished himself in a range of fields, including administrative law and policy, environmental law, and behavioral economics," said Obama at his nomination of his regulatory czar. "He is uniquely qualified to lead my administration's regulatory reform agenda at this crucial stage in our history. Cass is not only a valued adviser, he is a dear friend and I am proud to have him on my team."
O'Leary disagrees.
"It's hard to imagine President Obama nominating a more dangerous candidate for regulatory czar than Cass Sunstein," he says. "Not only is Sunstein an animal-rights radical, but he also seems to have a serious problem with our First Amendment rights. Sunstein has advocated everything from regulating the content of personal e-mail communications, to forcing nonprofit groups to publish information on their websites that is counter to their beliefs and mission. Of course, none of this should be surprising from a man who has said that 'limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.' If it were up to Obama and Sunstein, everything we read online – right down to our personal e-mail communications – would have to be inspected and approved by the federal government."
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Wake up people, here it comes !!! Freedom of speech will be censored if this tard gets his way.
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I guess that pesky First Amendment matters only if you spout the liberal talking points.
Freedom for thee, but not for me? I don't think so!
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A "waiting period" for emails? Doesn't that defeat the entire poit of ELECTRONIC MAIL?
This guy is a ****ing idiot.
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Would be funny as hell if the Obama admin forced DU to allow freepers to post :lmao:
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Sunstein also has argued in his prolific literary works that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing.
I can do the same thing with any other communications format as well.
Change the channel or turn off the TV or radio,
Don't read articles in the paper,
Don't open mail from people/organizations that I don't like.
Walk away from people saying things I choose not the hear
etc...
This asshat is a ****ing idiot.
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People can also filter out solicitations via the do not call list, is that also 'undemocratic' and a violation of the the Fairness Doctrine? What kinda of alternaworld are we living in where INDIVIDUALLY filtering ones OWN PERSONAL e-mail is undemocratic? So we must be force fed any particular brand of idiocy someone decides to send like we are two year olds having to be encouraged to eat our brocoli? Fer Chrissakes!Let another liberal tell me anything about about 'freedom of speech, choice, or anything else'. If anyone in the Bush administration talked like this, they'd be marching against oppression. I mean this guy is talking of real violations of the type of thing that the 1st amendment does cover and the masses, some of the same idiots at DU who railed against civil rights and other violations which sought to seek out ONLY criminal acts where there was suspicion, are lapping up the massive violation of the civil rights of EVERY American citizen like hungry dogs. *disgusted*
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"Sunstein also has argued in his prolific literary works that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing."
This sounds like 1984 where they would prop your eyelids open and force you to watch what they wanted you to.
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This guys a complete whackjob! Even the left is going to realize that.
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This guys a complete whackjob! Even the left is going to realize that.
Yes, but he's THEIR whackjob, and if it helps consolidate their power and quash criticism or dissent, they'll gladly take that baggage on, as long as he's useful to them.
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This guys a complete whackjob! Even the left is going to realize that.
Being a whackjob and an idiot seems to be a qualifier for working in The Anointed One's mis-administration....along with being a tax cheat.
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I guess that pesky First Amendment matters only if you spout the liberal talking points.
Freedom for thee, but not for me? I don't think so!
Remember if they impose localism and diversity rules on radio, talk radio will die. The net will be all we have.
Plus this admin argued in front of SCOTUS for the power to ban books and films through the Campaign Finance Reform.... in the CITIZENS UNITED case a few weeks ago.
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:hammer: <-- uncivil?
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A "waiting period" for emails? Doesn't that defeat the entire poit of ELECTRONIC MAIL?
This guy is a ****ing idiot.
Time to get that 128-bit encryption key distributed to all of your contacts. You know damned good and well that those waiting e-mails aren't just going to be sitting idle in some US e-Postal Service buffer; the gummint is gonna know everything from who's sending dirty messages to your daughter to grandma's recipe for pumpkin rolls.
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:hammer: <-- uncivil?
:bird:
:loser:
:tongue:
:bash:
:bigbird:
:chairshot:
:foff:
:redbird:
:evilbird:
:gives:
Nah.
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Time to get that 128-bit encryption key distributed to all of your contacts. You know damned good and well that those waiting e-mails aren't just going to be sitting idle in some US e-Postal Service buffer; the gummint is gonna know everything from who's sending dirty messages to your daughter to grandma's recipe for pumpkin rolls.
I wonder if Aunt Nappy would use such a buffer to track "potential extremist activity"?
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I wonder if Aunt Nappy would use such a buffer to track "potential extremist activity"?
I wouldn't send cell-to-cell messages in the clear just to find out. :thatsright:
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Would be funny as hell if the Obama admin forced DU to allow freepers to post :lmao:
:bwah:
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:bwah:
This is such a stupid idea. Its hard to imagine anyone would take it seriously.
:hammer:
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This is such a stupid idea. Its hard to imagine anyone would take it seriously.
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And yet we have O-bot comrades in Congress and the administration sucking this out of every orifice Teh Messiah allows them to latch onto. And then we have the court jesters of the Left-wing media selling this to the Sheeple like it was Moses and the stone tablets come down from the mountain.
Ladies and gents; we are well and truly F-U-C-K-E-D...
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Ladies and gents; we are well and truly F-U-C-K-E-D...
Understatement of the day.
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I wonder if Aunt Nappy would use such a buffer to track "potential extremist activity"?
Would you put it past Dear Leader to set up some website (http://report-anti-obama-activity.ning.com/) that they knew would be linked to by conservative sites and then bactrack to those sites? :tinfoil: That way they'd have very little trouble finding the anti-0Bama sites.
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DUmmies, be careful of what you wish for....a Republican Presidency is coming soon.
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The only way the Email thing could work would be to get all major ISPs to trap mail before delivery - Its a ridiculously expensive prospect, So I doubt anything would come of it -- But if it Does, All I can say is screw that - Ill continue to use my private email accounts hosted on my private server, and if necessary have them sent to me via another port to avoid this delay.
The DUmmies were all terrified of 'Carnivore' yet I'm sure they will line up to support this since its coming from those who represent The One.
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The only way the Email thing could work would be to get all major ISPs to trap mail before delivery - Its a ridiculously expensive prospect to anybody but a government that had the printing presses churning out dollar bills three shifts a day, seven days a week, So I doubt anything would come of it -- But if it Does, All I can say is screw that - Ill continue to use my private email accounts hosted on my private server, and if necessary have them sent to me via another port to avoid this delay.
The DUmmies were all terrified of 'Carnivore' yet I'm sure they will line up to support this since its coming from those who represent The One.
Fixorated. :II:
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The only way the Email thing could work would be to get all major ISPs to trap mail before delivery - Its a ridiculously expensive prospect, So I doubt anything would come of it -- But if it Does, All I can say is screw that - Ill continue to use my private email accounts hosted on my private server, and if necessary have them sent to me via another port to avoid this delay.
The DUmmies were all terrified of 'Carnivore' yet I'm sure they will line up to support this since its coming from those who represent The One.
The issue of whether or not it is feasable or that it will even work is a mute point. The more relevant issue is that they have the AUDACITY to even try!
How many MORE rights will the country allow to be worn thin by this collection of assholes....Disenfranchisement?...we are way beyond that.
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lets see, 60 seats almost in the Senate...almost time to declare the republican party
dead enemy of the State.
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Carnivore was replaced by Echelon. It DOES read emails or at least looks for key words. Things are going to have to be encrypted from now on, it seems.
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Don't worry. The federal government knows what is best for us all.
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The issue of whether or not it is feasable or that it will even work is a mute point. The more relevant issue is that they have the AUDACITY to even try!
How many MORE rights will the country allow to be worn thin by this collection of assholes....Disenfranchisement?...we are way beyond that.
There are always folks who come up with moonbat crazy ideas that go nowhere politically, and were never meant to - its often seen when s/he votes against his/her own proposition -- if it ever makes it out of committee. It's nothing more than grandstanding and saber-rattling. When Obama takes notice, then I'll be concerned.
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There are always folks who come up with moonbat crazy ideas that go nowhere politically, and were never meant to - its often seen when s/he votes against his/her own proposition -- if it ever makes it out of committee. It's nothing more than grandstanding and saber-rattling. When Obama takes notice, then I'll be concerned.
Yeah, the proposal to bring back the draft is an example.