But then, the Internet as a whole is turning Democratic from what I see. Oh well, more info is better, especially when the Republican position is to restrict information (Pro RIAA, anti Net Neutrality).
Do you SERIOUSLY believe this? Really? From my perspective, the ones that are doing the most to restrict freedom of speech are the democrats!
Calling the Republicans Pro-RIAA is a red herring, because BOTH parties are Pro-RIAA. They're all right in the jacket pocket of "big copyright."
Net Neutrality is about censorship and information restriction only in the imagination of the Net Neutrality fanatics. While they make good political hay out of "Net Neutrality prevents Censorship" it really is nothing of the sort. It's about allowing companies to pay for preferential bandwidth over what the customer is paying for directly. There's nothing in it that would say that you couldn't go to any website at all, after all, you're paying for your bandwidth and can go anywhere you want with that bandwidth. It just allows others to pay for bandwidth on your behalf as well.
To counter this, the Democrats and a handful of the big government republicans are trying to bring back the Fairness doctrine, and extend it out so that it also covers the internet. The Fairness doctrine is actually anything but Fair. It says that if you had a website and you expressed any political leanings whatsoever, you would have to allow someone from an opposing viewpoint (Because there are only two viewpoints on any given subject according to the Democrats) to go on YOUR website and state their opinion with equal time and gravity on your site as your opinion.
On the Palin thing, It's really absurd. There's tons of pictures showing Palin pregnant with him in interviews... And if she did that for her daughter's first baby, why not the second since the left is making such a big fuss about this.
The real reason they're bringing this up is that the republicans nominating a female doesn't fit with the media's worldview, that Democrats are the pious ones who always do their best for women and minorities, so they have to besmirch and destroy anyone the republicans appoints and make them out to be a traitor to their (race/gender) because it upstages their preferred pious party. They did this to Clarence Thomas, and now they're doing it to Sarah Palin.
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Do you SERIOUSLY believe this? Really? From my perspective, the ones that are doing the most to restrict freedom of speech are the democrats!
Calling the Republicans Pro-RIAA is a red herring, because BOTH parties are Pro-RIAA. They're all right in the jacket pocket of "big copyright."
Net Neutrality is about censorship and information restriction only in the imagination of the Net Neutrality fanatics. While they make good political hay out of "Net Neutrality prevents Censorship" it really is nothing of the sort. It's about allowing companies to pay for preferential bandwidth over what the customer is paying for directly. There's nothing in it that would say that you couldn't go to any website at all, after all, you're paying for your bandwidth and can go anywhere you want with that bandwidth. It just allows others to pay for bandwidth on your behalf as well.
To counter this, the Democrats and a handful of the big government republicans are trying to bring back the Fairness doctrine, and extend it out so that it also covers the internet. The Fairness doctrine is actually anything but Fair. It says that if you had a website and you expressed any political leanings whatsoever, you would have to allow someone from an opposing viewpoint (Because there are only two viewpoints on any given subject according to the Democrats) to go on YOUR website and state their opinion with equal time and gravity on your site as your opinion.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080812160747.aspx
On the Palin thing, It's really absurd. There's tons of pictures showing Palin pregnant with him in interviews... And if she did that for her daughter's first baby, why not the second since the left is making such a big fuss about this.
The real reason they're bringing this up is that the republicans nominating a female doesn't fit with the media's worldview, that Democrats are the pious ones who always do their best for women and minorities, so they have to besmirch and destroy anyone the republicans appoints and make them out to be a traitor to their (race/gender) because it upstages their preferred pious party. They did this to Clarence Thomas, and now they're doing it to Sarah Palin.