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Should President Obama Control The Internet?

Akagi2 Wrote: Jul 20, 2009 2:48 PM
I agree that the 1st amendment (or the 2nd or the 3rd or the 8th) should apply to the states, but you lost that battle when the Congress proposed and the states (some under hostile military occupation) ratifed the 14th in 1868 and then Gitlow in 1925 opened the barn door to incorporation.

I'd say Everson was ruled incorrectly in my view. There is no way public funds should have been spent to transport students to private schools--be they religious or not.

The framers? Who really cares? Their viewed became moot once the 14th was ratified.

President Barack Obama wants to control the internet.

And if our President has his way, this website may soon be under legal attack from the White House.

Since the internet’s emergence in the private sector (it actually began in the public sector, through developments at the U.S. Department of Defense back in the 1960’s), officials in our U.S. Government have generally viewed the internet as a good and necessary thing.

In 1996, when former Sun Microsystems Officer John Gage began a movement to get high-tech companies involved in providing internet infrastructure for...

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