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Old 06-17-2003, 05:07 PM  
Gman.357
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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
The reason these net people get away with all kinds of stuff is that they work for no one. They put stuff up with no restraints. This, of course, is dangerous, but it symbolizes what the Internet is becoming.

So all over the country, we have people posting the most vile stuff imaginable, hiding behind high tech capabilities. Sometimes the violators are punished, but most are not. We have now have teenagers ruining the reputations of their peers in schools on the Internet. Ideologues accusing public officials of the worst things imaginable. And creeps gossiping about celebrities in the crudest of ways.

The Internet has become a sewer of slander and libel, an unpatrolled polluted waterway, where just about anything goes.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,89499,00.html



Apparenlty Bill doesn't like it when he can't just turn off the mic on people who make him look stupid.
I don't see anything in that quote you posted above where he flat out says free speach is bad. What he mentions above are things that do need regulation... because anywhere else, they could and often would be prosecutable. But on the net, it's easier to get away with so many illegal things.

Are you arguing that absolutely anything should go so long as it's online?
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