Senator: Illegal images must be reported | CNET News.com
update Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law.
The legislation, drafted by Sen. John McCain and obtained by CNET News.com, would also require Web sites that offer user profiles to delete pages posted by sex offenders.
McCain is what is known as a statist conservative. He trusts the power and authority of the state a hell of a lot more than he does you.
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I will never vote for McCain, and in my gut, I believe that there are enough folks who feel the same way to overcome the rationally ignorant who have been duped into thinking that McCain has somehow done something good for the U.S. in the last 25 years.
I’m sure too, that there are enough folks that are awake Coffee. He’s not going anywhere near being the GOP nominee.
Hey, another bright side of the Dems taking over this past mid-term, McCain won’t be able to easily push through any more suppression of free speech.
Eh, well, maybe he will, but it’ll be the Feingold/McCain bill this time around. Sad stuff, whomever’s name is on top.
McCain WILL be the nominee, if the media and the Democrats can do anything about it.
Looking at their success rates at getting the mass of the American public to accept their brainwashing as original thought, I worry.
‘We’ believe the economy is in trouble–a self-fulfilling belief–and lo and behold..
‘We’ believe the the WoT is screwing up and mired in Iraq–and anyone who can’t see that a good portion of the problem is Bushs’ belief in this, coupled with his advisors belief in this is blind–and again, lo and behold….
Want someone besides McCain?
A daily, nationwide effort to remind everyone–something to rival the Dems and the MSM–is needed.
Otherwise we’ll watch as the ‘conservatives’ slowly adjust their opinions, over the next two years, to conform to the medias dictates.
Oddly enough, Jack, this part is true. And the Bushbots who can’t see it are the blind ones.
But you knew that already, right?
Bill, though you keep putting me in the ‘bushbot’ box, I’m not one. My stance on the congressional election that just passed had nothing to do with Bush–it had to do with the damage that Democrats will do to this country and its’ Constitution.
Not that I think the Republicans were doing markedly better–but I at least felt that they could be talked to.
My point in this is that I’ve already watched peoples opinion change to match the MSMs mandates–yours included. Granted, you came to it from a different direction, but a difference that makes no difference IS no difference. Had everyone stayed solid behind the initial effort, had the whole program gone forward despite the media undermining it, things would have been much different today.
But democracy relies on popularity–and the media can focus that popularity. Because of this all our elected officials are susceptible to this ‘chase-the-media-approval’ mindset.
Getting the media out of the control of the left is the paramount issue. Without an outlet at least as pervasive as that held by the left we are forever going to be plagued by OUR politicians seeking the public approval of their, and our, ideological enemies.
You really don’t understand very much at all, do you?
Okay, no more responses from me to your drivel.
A difference that makes no difference is no difference? Let me change that to stupid drivel.
I think I do understand you, Bill. You, like me, are disgusted with the way the Republican party not only wasted their victory, but actually seemed to be actively subverting it.
A good chunk of the people we helped put into office became the thing we’d elected them to fight.
You, like me, are disgusted with Bushs’ mishandling of the war. I’d delineate this, but it could take pages.
Here is my point. The MSM pushed it’s anti-war agenda, citing various issues–among them Bushs’ mishandling of the War–a fact we both agree with–though we come at it from a different direction from the MSM and see solutions that they would see as just as bad, if not worse that what they’re denouncing Bush for.
They even stated, before the election, that Republicans would lose the Congress because of their supporters dissatisfaction with the party and it’s leaders. They set up that ‘culture of corruption’ thing as just one facet of an overall plan.
To get supporters of real conservatism to stay home.
Granted, a lot of them had nothing to vote for–the Republicans WERE failing at being the party that represents us.
And my argument that the alternative was worse just wasn’t holding any weight. My latter point, that good Republicans should not be made to suffer for the wrongs of bad Republicans was too little, too late.
It was not a good time at all. Even my wife was leaning towards the ‘fuck them’ route.
And now, with 20/20 hindsight I say that an even better reason for having gritted ones teeth and giving the Republicans a pass is because the MSM wanted me–and you to stay home. I must seem the annoying idiot.
But they did get what they wanted. Whatever lesson that slap in the face might teach must be tempered with that realisation.
And they’re going to try it again. With McCain. They will be talking him up for the next two years. They’re going to try to make his nomination inevitable.
In the hope that he gets it. And voters like you, and me, and countless others will stay home.
That phrase, “a difference that makes no difference IS no difference.”, is very valid. Despite the reasoning behind your actions, the MSM got what it wanted. They don’t care WHY you voted the way you did–they only care about the result. And I’m not trying to chide you for what happened. I’m saying that we HAVE to work to make sure they don’t get what they want in 2008.