Action Alert!
The following information comes from GM's Corner from Online Coalition:
"Right now – there are TWO bills in Congress that will affect bloggers – one good, one bad. The bill that deserves our support is HR 1606 – The Online Freedom of Speech Act.Here's GM's advice:
"The other bill – HR 4194 – is a substitute offered by those most interested in regulating the internet. Its supporters are engaged in an aggressive campaign to pass this legislation in Congress, in an effort to muddy the waters and distract Congress from passing real protections for bloggers. They're so terrified of your freedom to speak your mind that they've actually compared giving freedom to bloggers to the scandal involving Scooter Libby in the White House. No, we're not making that up."
"Write your congressmen in no uncertain terms. Put a notice on your blog, send e-mails to friends letting them know. Do something or this media that we love will change and not for the better. If you really value the First Amendment, do this now!!!!"Hop to it, folks--be you righties or lefties!
Contact your Congressional Representative here.
posted by Always On Watch @ 11/11/2005 09:40:00 AM
13 comments
13 Comments:
And support the McCain-Feingold Blogger Tax Cut Act too ;-)
Duck,
Hopefully you'll do some research to find out what the story is.
Thanks for that update AOW...good luck if the Congress actually thinks it can regulate the Internet, but I'd rather not be breaking any laws and will express my opinion to my Congressman.
I don't see how they can suppress free speech and expect the Supreme Court to uphold any laws that they may pass. But crazier things have happened.
BTW..one that other matter everything is in limbo until spring.
done.
Sounds like China to me.
Samwich,
When you do write your congressman,
Make sure they understand in NO uncertain terms that YOU are worth much more than just one vote.
Excellent point! And I think I see how to pull off my letter. Time to send a revised one.
"Write your congressmen in no uncertain terms. "
Well, I am out of the equasion but I give you all my moral support.
I am sure you'll score a great win.
Duck,
AOW, you may have jumped arly on this one.
Do you read the articles and check the links? Go to GM's Corner, and have a look because Red State and Daily Kos have joined hands on this issue. I'd have thought Daily Kos was right up your alley. Well, if I jumped early--and I'm not admitting that I did--so did Daily Kos. LOL. Be sure that you critique Kos as well.
Besides, "the early bird gets the worm" and "forewarned is forearmed." And all those other trite proverbs.
Thanks for the info -- be on that and will add a link to your site for this great info. This is really important. I knew that after the last election and the Dan Rather thing that blogs were going to come under pressure from the powers that be. None of them really like a free press with people expressing their opinions, they like to be able to control the message via their usual outlets, the media that they manipulate and cosset with their favors. They've even started to woo certain of the big bloggers with favored conference calls, etc. to schmooze them and butter them up. I personaly think that's dangerous, as you don't want to get too close to those guys in power and start worrying like the media guys do if you are going to be invited to the next big do, or if you are going to continue to get access. You have to balance access with independence.
They're so scared of blogs (yeah, G-d forbid another voice, one they can't control, is heard). Doesn't surprise me they'd try. Keep tracking this, AOW -- and keep us updated. :)
That's kinda neat, Samwich. We loan Russia money for elections, using money China put on T-bills, we turn around and give China the titles on Russia's debt to us, and Russia arms China with overpriced and nearly useless weaponry to pay them back. America blows on her knuckles, rubs them on her shirt and says "Damn, I'm good."
Then we have a massive economic boom for 6 years, rinse, and repeat.
Living in Australia there's not much I can do but it is concerning indeed--the flow through effect of this bill not being passed will effect us all.
Long live blogging!
I've contacted my United States Representative about this several times. I think he got the message.
God Bless america, God Save The Republic.
Samwich,
I mean "useless" as in top-shelf Russian made GPS guidance scramblers the Iraqis deployed in 2003 to throw off our precision-guided weaponry that America easily destroyed. With GPS guided bombs.
I mean "useless" like 1 of our tanks can take out 10 of theirs and be pissed because the enemy isn't sending targets up fast enough.
I mean "useless" like the jihadis that light up our Predator drone infra-red camera suites in the moonless Anbar desert night getting fragulated in real time by Hellfire missiles fired by the guy piloting the Predator drone via remote control from somewhere in Florida.
The US is ahead of every other military in the world. And I don't care if the world doesn't like it. It's actually good if they don't like it. I don't remember giving them permission to like it.
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