McCain-Feingold vs. bloggers

[ravinraven]

Let me see....

....oh, yes. It says right here in the first amendment. "...congress shall make laws limiting the freedom of the press, especially political ideas."

Come on, gang. It was there all the time except that it was written in invisible ink and McFact figured out how to make the ink become visible.

rr

 

[shermacman]

There is more invisible ink! Look what McVain found in the Second Amendment! Bayonet lugs, detachable magazines, solder temperature for flash suppressors, pistol grips; it is all there to read, we all missed it. McVain has done the nation a great service!

 

[dustind]

I can't even believe most of this stuff is being openly debated.

Anything else I could say on this issue would be a felony and get me banned.

 

[pax]

And yet, come fall of 2008, most the people on this board will vote for him and the other folks who did this.

Again.

:banghead:

pax

 

[RevDisk]

Q: Then what's the real impact of the judge's decision?
A: The judge's decision is in no way limited to ads. She says that any coordinated activity over the Internet would need to be regulated, as a minimum.

And people wonder why I'm so paranoid regarding my computer. I don't run a blog anymore. I just use my website as a dumping ground for photos, projects, etc. If I was intending on a political blog, I would not host it in the US and I'd take care to use anonymous means of controlling it.

There are dozens of relatively user-friendly crypto packages. Link 'em up through anonymous encrypted networks (Freenet, et al), and it's rather expensive to locate the blogger in question. Impossible? Nope. Just expensive. The point of practical cryptology is not to make information impossible to intercept and decode, but to make it cost prohibitive to do so.

In short, civil disobiedience.

 

[Owen]

Maybe I can say this because I am single with no kids, but Rev-Disk, isn't taking down your site, and essentially silencing yourself playing right into Mc-F's hands?

If they want to fine me for political activism, screw 'em. I won't pay the fine. If they throw me in jail for not paying the fine, I will happily go to jail.

Here, read this from the Gutenberg Project...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Sitting in your basement, muttering under your breath, typing cryptic emails only to people you know intimately is not civil disobedience when it's your right to PUBLIC speech that is being breached.

 

[Sindawe]

And yet, come fall of 2008, most the people on this board will vote for him and the other folks who did this.

Not I. I'd sooner have a frontal lobotomy than vote for that peice of [CENSORED]

 

[fjolnirsson]

And people wonder why I'm so paranoid regarding my computer. I don't run a blog anymore. I just use my website as a dumping ground for photos, projects, etc. If I was intending on a political blog, I would not host it in the US and I'd take care to use anonymous means of controlling it.

To each his own. I started blogging, as did many others I'm sure, in response to McCain-Feingold. Granted, I seldom have the time to post much, but it's there for the world to see. If I'm silenced on the web, I'll take to the streets. I won't silence myself. I won't bow down to the government on this. As with many things, I have found my line in the sand.
Complaining amongst ourselves doesn't do any good. Educating the "common folk" just may. I've run into a number of people who had no idea of what McCain-Feingold was, and were shocked to hear it may be applied to blogging.

Check out the McCain-Feingold Insurrection. I believe there's a link from Geek witha .45's blog.

 

[MountainPeak]

I will never vote for McCain. His attacks on the Bill of Rights are enough, but I honestly think the guy is also mentally ill!!

 

[Fletchette]

And yet, come fall of 2008, most the people on this board will vote for him and the other folks who did this.

Again.

Pax, how will we know this when there is no paper trail from the electronic voting machines?

 

[RealGun]

And yet, come fall of 2008, most the people on this board will vote for him and the other folks who did this.

Pax, how will we know this when there is no paper trail from the electronic voting machines?

I read that as just a backhanded plug for the LP.

 

[RevDisk]

Maybe I can say this because I am single with no kids, but Rev-Disk, isn't taking down your site, and essentially silencing yourself playing right into Mc-F's hands?

Pffft. I didn't shut down my blog out of fear of Mc-F's laws. I stopped updating it because I didn't care for the format. I am gonna switch over to writing more article styled system in December.

However, I do fully intend on being... careful in what I say. I have no intentions of becoming a Mark Lombardi.

"Pax, how will we know this when there is no paper trail from the electronic voting machines?"
I read that as just a backhanded plug for the LP.

Funny, I read it as a backhanded plug for http://www.blackboxvoting.com , for which I am fronthandedly plugging.

Jim March is still obviously hard at work, and went somewhat 'underground' because of certain activities he is engaged in.