Bloggers Who Criticize Government May Face Prison

Bill would allow rounding up and imprisoning of non-registered political writers
by Steve Watson, Infowars.net
wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress in the latest astounding attack on the internet and the First Amendment.
GrassrootsFreedom.com, a website dedicated to fighting efforts to silence grassroots movements, states:

on hold.
John McCain’s proposal to introduce legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards.
de-classified strategy for “winning the war on terror” targets Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to “diminish” their influence.
Michael Chertoff identified the web as a “terror training camp,” through which “disaffected people living in the United States” are developing “radical ideologies and potentially violent skills.” Chertoff pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.
criminalize all Internet file sharing of any kind as copyright infringement, effectively shutting down the world wide web – and their argument is supported by the U.S. government.
linking to other websites is breach of copyright and piracy.
also vowed to shut down “terrorists” who use the Internet to spread propaganda.
Internet 2.
strictly regulated and virtually exists as its own entity away from the rest of the web.
been censored on China’s official Web sites because they are “Sensitive phrases”. Are we to allow our supposedly Democratic governments to implement the same type of restrictive policies here?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070124&articleId=4569 

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