A “biparistan” bill is a democrat sponsored bad idea with a useful idiot republican as a obstensive co-sponsor. Not content to attempt to strangle free speech on the public airwave, democrats are now proposing to regulate private speech. Adam Thomas reports on a Senate proposal to further trample free speech:
US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited.
Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) both argued that Internet was a dangerous place where parents alone will not be able to protect their children.
The Internet is private, and the federal govenment has no authority or business attempting to regulate it.
Ed Morrissey, Captain Quarters:
We don’t need a nanny state deciding what to block for our own good.
If you don’t like the Internet, don’t use it.
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Tags: BitsBlog, Democrats, Republicans, Technology
July 26th, 2007 at 10:41
Apparently, senator Stevens hasn’t noticed what happened to senator McCain, just recently. Or if he did, he didn’t take the lesson from it.