Comments on: More restrictions on speech?

By: The American Mind / Webloggers Overreact to Senate Lobbying Bill

The American Mind / Webloggers Overreact to Senate Lobbying Bill — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:20:44 +0000

[...] On almost-partisan lines the Senate passed an amendment that deleted a section of the Lobbying Reform Bill dealing with grassroots lobbying. There was a tempest in the blogosphere over the possibility it would require certain webloggers to register as lobbyists. [...]

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:15:51 +0000

By my calculations the breakdown of votes was 7 Democrats and 48 Republicans voting “YEA”, with 41 Democrats and two “independents” voting “NAY”.

So now I have two questions for those conservatives and libertarians who either stayed home or voted Democratic on Election Day 2006 “in order to teach the GOP a lesson”.

1. Are you pleased with this result? Free speech has been upheld, but only by a narrow margin.

2. And do you think that the attempt by the Democratic Congress to crackdown on free speech and civil liberties has now been defeated for good, or is this just the opening battle?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:15:23 +0000

So, what constitutes 500 readers? 500 hits a day? 500 hits a month? That’s very open language…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:50:23 +0000

Harry Reid did not sponsor Section 220, the section in question; it was sponsored by Senator David Vitter (R-LA).

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/political_blogg.html

By: T F Stern

T F Stern — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:57:45 +0000

As with any other God given right, those which we concede to our government, either by neglect, omission or forced submission; they become spilt milk forever lost. We have a government of elitists who believe they are above the constitution and know better than those who elected them. They have lost, or more likely, thrown away the concept of equality being invested in our form of government and seek to remove any vestige of the higher ideals which our forefathers sought to establish and protect. These modern day power brokers would snicker at George Washington for his farewell speech, his having come so close to becoming a King and then stepping down from office in the interest of preserving true concepts of liberty. I pity Harry Reid for having become the monster that he now is, gobbling up rights and liberty in order to obtain personal power.