President Bush takes down HowardStern.com
 

Turned into a political website, www.HowardStern.com, has been shut down by many ISPs. He put anti Bush, pro Kerry links on the site and many will not link it. Freedom of speech is GONE.

Dark..I hope I beat you to it....lol

Come on... that can't be true.
It hasn't gone THAT far has it?

usa sucks

Thank god I only go to the Us on vacation

You people have no clue. :1orglaugh

Take the comma out of the URL. Try link checking next time.

maybe it's just...down. i hear that happens on the interweb. :winkwink:

Welcome to facism, established 2001

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Either your joking, or you're a dumbass. Rite now I'm thinking the latter.

I know aol people can not get on HS site. so what you do is go through google search and get there that way!!!!!!!!

always a way!

Works fine for me :thumbsup

Have you ever been to the Howard Stern website? He doesn't really use it. It will sit wth nothing but a single picture on the index page forever.

Rite (sorry, right) now I would call you an asshole, but I don't know you, so I will not. I cannot give you the MP3 file at this moment, but I will post it as soon as it comes up on usenet.
Nobody can make this stuff up.

works fine here.

Yes, trying without the comma it works for me.. but anyway it doesn't looks like some HS official site... what you think about?

I'm not keen of political oppression at any place.. but you know that everywhere are a lot of people talking and asaying things with no sense..

samuel:BangBang:

Apparently YOU have not been there recently. :2 cents:

My bad, but the problem still is there. I did not say ALL ISPs.

It's OK. You can call what you want.

While I don't think the government has done anything to censor it, as the site becomes more political, it will be subject to regulation by the federal election commission. You can't just put up web sites and state your political view in the US, unless it costs you under a couple hundred bucks or something. You need to file paperwork with the federal election commission. It's the same reason you can't take out an ad in the paper or run a TV commercial espousing your political viewpoint.

We have freedom of speech, as in we can walk down the street and say "hey, I don't like Bush," or write non-obscene political statements on a piece of sign and carry it in certain government-approved areas, but when it costs money to broadcast our opinions to several people at once, that freedom has been elminated through "campaign finance reform." As a webmaster, be advised that you can get in deep shit if you promote any political causes on your sites and fail to file the proper paperwork. Ironically, last election Bush was railing against an anti-Bush web site, which until then had been within the allowable spending limits, but once he talked about it in the media, it got bombarded with traffic, and drove up the bandwidth costs, which caused it to be in violation of FEC spending limits. I think they initiated an investigation, but the PR backlash caused the complaint to be withdrawn.

lol, hopefully with your huge "tax cut" you can buy yourself a clue.

:1orglaugh

If you assumed I was defending the legislation regulating speech, or Bush's position on the matter, I was not. If you think I'm simply misinformed about the Federal Election Campaign Act, it's possible, but the last I heard:

(Source: http://www.cdt.org/speech/political/financereport.shtml)

Is howardstern.com expressly advocating the defeat of George W. Bush? It's debatable, and I'm sure Stern's attorneys are carefully tiptoeing around the issue. Look on the site and there's a section of "Friggin Bush" links, all critical of Bush, and Stern says "Vote out every Republican you can find," but that assiduously avoids advocating the defeat of a "clearly identified candidate." I don't listen to his show, so I don't know, but has he explicitly advocated Bush's defeat? Or is he just criticizing him and his positions?

Dude have you seen the fucking ads ? It's propaganda nothing else

sorry, but you are wrong. he can put up whatever he wants, and it will have nothing to do with campaign finance reform.

He can say whatever he wants, as long as it's not paid-for commercial speech - talk shows like that are presumably profitable, or try to be profitable, so they're not spending money to espouse their political views. If they weren't profitable, then the person or group providing funding to broadcast the shows would need to comply with FEC regulations. (Either tiptoeing around the regulations, or registering and keeping within spending limits).

The web is uncharted territory. The law certainly suggests that if a person or group are spending money to finance a web site of the nature described in FECA (above), then they fall under FEC regulation as well. So far the public and politicians asking that the measures not be enforced with regards to the web, as it's still an area in its formative stages, but the law is still on the books. There are plenty of defenses possible too. But I'm not sure why you think it has nothing to do with campaign finance reform. Have you read any case law or legal opinions on the issue? Having had SS investigations concerning my political domains, I try to keep on top of these things.

Not since a couple of weeks ago when it had the "Passion of the Stern" pic on the page. Good to see they're using it for something more worthwhile now:)

:1orglaugh

www.HowardStern.com not www.HowardStern.com,
Go back to Havana and fuck a donkey :321GFY

Why do non-americans always come into threads about things that don't concern them and spout stupid one liners?


EDIT: Oh wait I forgot... It does concern them becasue we are the only global super power left. If I fart, it affects your economy. So keep bashing the US. :D

Exactly. You guys think u own the world so thats why non americans come into threads like this.

No actually you asshat...
IM responding to comments that we already made... You can't use my comment to jusitfy comments made before I typed it.

+ your stupid if you deny the fact that the us is a global super power.

Try not using any sponsor who pay in US dollars Fucktard, this industry (along with many others) is centered here.

I know you haev to act liek a patriot for your country and that all well and good, but on GFY tons of morons are always player hating my country.

ITs lame.

We do own the world.

Getting away from this whole "USA runs shit" debate... I was just going to say that the quote on Howard Stern's site is one of the better ones I've read in awhile.

(For those who haven't visited, or don't want to visit.. I'll do the honor)

what the fuck? that site isn't a commercial site. Can't Howard Stern have a personal website where he can say whatever he wants like every other citizen of the United States? Because he also has a radio show he can't have an anti-Bush bumper sticker on his car?

i'm not really up on the election laws so maybe he doesn't have the right. can a private citizen buy ad space in a newspaper and write in support or against a candidate? if so then then Howard Stern.com is no different than that.

I thought if u weren't being paid by the parties that u could do whatever u wanted.

sounds bad to me.

If it in fact got shut down by the Bush admin. You guys better vote him out!

we should hook him up with some bulletproof hosting :glugglug

Stern can have a personal website, the same as anybody. Legally, however, individuals as well as companies and other groups fall under campaign finance laws. A private citizen can buy ad space if it's under $100, or for more if it doesn't advocate election or defeat of a particular candidate. It doesn't matter whether you're being paid by the parties or not. That's part of what the campaign finance reform debate has been about - a loophole existed such that you couldn't give much to a candidate, but you could spend billions of dollars running your own ads for a candidate, or against their component. Not much has changed, but new loopholes had to be found to achieve the same thing.

Totally agree....up until recently there has not really been an active stern website....which I always found ironic, but it is true....now it looks like it is just being used as forum for them to post links to his position on the FCC, CC, and Bush

In keeping with my, "I don't hurt you, you don't hurt me" additude, I must self bump at this time.

I am so very glad you came up with such an original feedback. Your parents must be proud.

:)

the site works fine, how can you say Bush took it down? I dont think he really gives a fuck about Stern's website.