John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.
Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles. Some highlights of the legislation:
– Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.”
– Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.
— Social networking sites will be forced to take “effective measures” — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is “associated” with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists, and blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries.
War on Christmas, War on Drugs, War on Terror, now a War on Bloggers! What next?
4 comments:
No need to worry most of the baby boomer don't know how to work the computer anyway. The young people are the ones who know. McCain is just blowing smoke because Obama is getting the headlines these days.
OMG...SPB I hadn't seen that one yet! However, I have been expecting a backlash to come for awhile. It's that last bastion of free speech!!! We wil have to fight this one.
McCain is still pissed because blogging has become a popular use of expressing your opinion and blogging is kicking butt and people are not believing the media.. McCain knows the power ofthe internet. And he knows that his chances of winning as Prez is slim. And he knows there is alot of negative talks on blogs about him. There has been talks for many yeara about charging people to use the internet. This is a scare tactic by McCain. And he is in a hell of war with internet users and bloggers. If decides to go thru with this, that means this affects him too. He tends to forget that he has a website...
Your a mean one Mr. Grinch your evil your sly and foul. That about covers John McCain.
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