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Boston Globe: Time To End Free Speech On The Web?
Drake Bennett
Boston Globe
Monday Feb 16th, 2009
HERE ARE TWO stories about the Internet.
The week before last, the crippled economy coughed up a gift for picked-on college students across the country: It shut down Juicy Campus, a notorious website where campus gossips nationwide were invited to hold forth anonymously. “Just remember, keep it Juicy!” the home page had exhorted. Posters had duly obliged, and many students had found their social skills, weight, grooming habits, sexual orientation, and/or promiscuity to be the subject of gleefully vicious discussion by unseen online classmates. In a healthier economy, it’s unclear if anything could have closed down Juicy Campus – university administrators and even state prosecutors were eager to take it on, but had all but conceded that they had few legal options, and the website had been rapidly expanding the number of its member campuses.
And then there is this: Last month, someone posted a map showing the names, home locations, and occupations of thousands of people who gave money to support the passage of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative outlawing gay marriage in California. A number of these Proposition 8 supporters have since reported threatening e-mails and phone calls.
Speech now travels farther faster than the Founding Fathers – or the judges who created much of modern free speech law – could have dreamed. The Web has brought a new reach to the things we say about others, and created a vast potential audience for arguments that would once have unfolded in a single room or between two telephones. It has eaten away at the buffer that once separated public and private, making it possible to expose someone else’s intimate information to the world with a few keystrokes, or to take information that would formerly have been filed away in obscure public records and present it digestibly as a goad to collective political action.
One of the results has been the advent of a new culture of online heckling and shaming, and the rise of enormous cyber-posses motivated by social or political causes – or simple sadism.
Now, some legal scholars are beginning to argue that new technologies have changed the balance of power between the right to speak and the right to be left alone. At conferences, in law review articles, and, increasingly, in the courts, some lawyers are suggesting that the time has come to rethink some of the hallowed protections that the law gives speech in this country, especially if that speech is online. The proposals vary: Some focus on restricting material that can be posted online or how long it can stay there, others on whether we should be less willing to protect online anonymity. More ambitious schemes would have courts treat a person’s reputation as a form of property – something to be protected, traded, and even sold like any other property – or create a legally enforceable duty of confidentiality between friends like that which exists between doctors and their patients.
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February 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
we are living in a dictator run police state. these are the end
times of free speech and gun ownership. the mainstream media
has already been corrupted. next they will silence talk radio
then they will silence the internet. it s already being implemented
corrupt former judge alcee hastings concentration camps
will be full of political prisoners
see you in the boxcar
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February 16th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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February 16th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
There have been too many of my comments disappeared by this site lately. I don’t know why.
Are other people having the same problems with PrisonPlanet?
That Dog Don't Hunt Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Sometimes they stay sometimes they disappear, dunno why.
rafmad Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Yes, I wrote two comments recently talking about the roots of anti-semitism being that Christians blame the Jews for the death of Christ, and both were removed very quickly. Let’s see if that happens to this one.
Jerry Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Do some reasearch on semite people. Not just jewish (a religion) So remember after you research – an anti-semitic person is or should be against all semites.
rafmad Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Just to add, there is something a little sinister about a site claiming to fight for freedom doing this.
charles t Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
One “suspicous” comment and they can be up s*** creek. Open your eyes, this site needs to be open as long possible so as many people can get this message before we get all of our rights stripped from us by strong arm of the law. Be careful what you post anywhere.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
WE will take your guns, your crosses, your freedom of speech and crash planes
and all this brought to you by yours sponsors AIPAC and your Bud Mega the MOLE>>>>>
Don’t complain or no bailout.
just the FACTS Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
http://www.israelnationalnews......spx/160846
Gazans Die in Terrorism Accidents
(IsraelNN.com) In an incident in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, one Arab died and five others were wounded in a blast that Hamas claimed was caused by IDF tank fire. Military spokesmen noted that no troops were operating in the area. Foreign media reported that the 25-year-old casualty died after inadvertently throwing an explosive device into a fire that was melting down scrap metal, often used to manufacture Kassam rockets but also used as building material.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
jerking goyim around is fun cause they are dumb
February 16th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
IN THE OLD DAYS LENIN AND STALIN JUST LOCKED UP THE AUTHORS, POETS, ARTISTS AND ANYONE ELSE CAPABLE OF INDEPEDENT THOUGHT. EDUCATION, I MEAN REAL EDUCATION NOT THE LIBERAL CRAP BEING DISHED OUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS THESE DAYS, IS A TRUE ENEMY OF WOOD BE DICTATORS LIKE BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND HIS GOOD FRIENDS CASTRO II IN CUBA AS WELL AS HUGO SAVEZ AND ALL THE OTHER GLOBAL COMMUNISTS. IT APPEARS THAT THE CNN (COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK) AND MANY OTHER ARE IN LOCKSTEP WITH THE OBAMA AND BILDERERG GANG TO SHUT DOWN COMMUNITCATION NETWORKS FAST FOR THE ENLIGHTENED AND EDUCATED. HIS TRANSPARECY REVEALS HIS DICTATORIAL AMBITIONS WITH EVERY WORD AND BODY MOTION. VOICE INFLECTIONS EVEN REVEAL HIS MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY YOUNG INEXPERIENCED AND FOOLISH IDEALOLOGY. SAY GOOD BYE TO FREE SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO PROTECT YOUR OWN PROPERTY WITH THIS F—KING CLOWN MASCERADING AROUND AS A PRESIDENT. WHAT A FOOL. EVEN MORE FOOLISH ARE THE UNEDUCATED MORONS THAT ELECTED HIM.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
we have dropped mole turds everywhere. We are the Unified Mole Army at the FEDERAL
Level we are AristiMoles.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
says Massa says jump. No bailout for you if you aren’t on the ‘chosen’ list.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
If your lucky we might let you have a Cross at the FEMA camp. Maybe
February 16th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
yes
February 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Missing stuff has happened I guess to close to the truth.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Everybody can see world wide problems just like the 30s. Then a War cause people are pissed off.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
The bail out for a select few. To piss other peole off. Classic Manupulation just don’t get
mad get even. We know who and the what the problem is.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I am glad I don’t have Christian Children.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
They will make good debt slaves for the ELITES.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
the vile stench of Elite trolls dropping elite turd poop anybody got some American
CHEEEEZZZZEEEEE. Trap them and make some mole stew.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
plane crash sure just happened sure it was a Warning. Fuck em.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
AristiMoleBreath…I’m thankful you have no Christian children either! You sir are an uninformed magott on society, just like your masters. All powerful on this Earth and dog crap in the next, thats you and your zionists reward..come and get some..you puke!!
n/a Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
nicely said –
they look tough, but are weak inside – you can be tough thru the body but weak thru the mind… You are half strong if you are strong in the mind, and weak in the body, but you are the truly strong if your both strong in the body and mind..
February 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Really we have Mega the Mole in the top spot. We own everything and you get the debt.
We party at the Bohemian grove and design wars we plot stuff and you don’t know.
We make tons of money off war. What can you do. You can call us SIR.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
WE have all the best jobs and we totally taken over all the Intelligence Operations. We have sold your country out. We own all politicains and we tax you and give it AIG so they can
party.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
If you real lucky we will give you change like 10 cents and some Cheeze at the FEMA
camp. We will call the train the RED Amerisky in honor of Stalin he was one of ours.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Here is some change 10 cents.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Ban my freedom of speech, and die.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
We crashed the economy through the New York Fed with bad paper. We did it on purpose
and you blame BUSH. We are the chess masters. This is a Movie and the director is ours
this is all history repeated. We did the same shit In the taking over of Russia they finally
got rid off us took along time and we came here started the same shit up. We are sneaking
lying bastards we have no HONOR, DUTY, ETHICS JUST MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. tHEN
AFTER WE CRASHED THE ECONOMY ON PURPOSE mR. fIXER WAS mR. bREAKER
GEITHNER HE WAS our inside guy. NEW YORK Wall Street causes everything then
WE reward the breaker With the Fixer job. Like our inside guy Paulson we are buddies
party at the Grove with Kissinger and top Republicans we are the same. Its a show.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Remember when MONEY was called scip like are you in the scrip?
February 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
We such and are corrupt and we are INBRED and SNEAKY.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
AND WE CAN’T EVEN ADD. Did you know there are two budgets? An off budget and a
On budget because we stink we are slime we are gross two faced liars. But we think we are
GREAT we really think we are special we are Crazy weird Freaks that like to fool people.
February 16th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
We already have libel and slander precedents, successfully decided in civil court. Why do we need more laws?
February 16th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
We need more laws because when you figure out we just get richer and you get the debt
And that the Creditor Class (which means the Money Class) well you have to have a debtor class you get to be that. We rigged it that way. Vote all you want we don’t care. We classify
crap you don’t know what we do? We have no Moral, No Values No Ethics just Money
Money and more Money. We “borrow” money from where and pay Interest to where
do you know……. We “classified it” did I tell you we are babies and we whine like little
babies. Say something we don’t like and we whine like a 3 year old. We rig crap
WE rigged everywar. We sent Warvburg over from Germany and set up the FED.
Then brother Warburg stayed home and “advised” the Kaiser. We paly groups off on
one another give them guns and what them die. We are team THe Big I.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
the more Money we get the Politians we Buy Most judges and lawyers are part of the
Racket they just play like they don’t know. Its all a sham and we suck. We did the
11 trillion go. Do you have it? You got the debt.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Oh and we have think tanks and Committees same bunch of PHD idiots under our
control.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
we bullshit you with words and plots and schemes its a big Movie. Look up the word
scrip. We love jerking people around. We did it in the 1930’s got everybody at each
other throats sat back made a fortune. We built cars for Hitler covered it up and
we used a weopon pissed off the Japanese and ‘forgot” to tell the boys at Pearl harbor.
We needed the reaction. We fuck with people we are INBRED>>>>>>>>>>>>>
February 16th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
We starved 14 Million Orthodox Christians to death. Did you know. we covered it up.
It was called the HOLOMODOR>>>>>>>>> WE starved them to death.
February 16th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
try and find the 2 Trillion you will never find it never. We have never been audited and never will be. The FED is a joke and we know it but we our above the laws.
Diego Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Wow!
Who are you guys?
A Secret Freemason Fascist New World Order Jesuit Lizard Illuminati Intelligence Agency ?
February 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Campus gossip is being used as an excuse to quash Free Speech on the Internet?
You gotta be kidding? Right? No?
Welcome to the USSA.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Sorry blooper ..that was meant to read “Guess what your posting does not make it here!!!!
Seeing as that made it, how about this….. visit this site and view
http://www.henrymakow.com/000447.html
You will get far more of an education that you ever will on this site, make sure you go into the links at the bottom of the page as well.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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February 16th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
shit there cenoring the web we gotta fight and spread this info
February 16th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
shit there cenoring the web we gotta fight and spread this info !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
There going to slaughter and starve people and machie gun them down and then they will
eat them afterthey machine gun them down.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
yea there is nothing go on nothing why everybody is so happy all over the world. Sure.
They will round up Christians and slaughter them like the HOLOMODOR. It was kept
hidden for 40 years. It was horrible that is where all the food came from in the depression which was man made. people think God does this. This man made on purpose. This is fun and games for the Elite. They enjoy this crap. They run the Money and nobody knows
how it works….. Its never been audited. The Ukraine had tons of Food America had food
factories and people. It was man to steel assets. People don’t know things. Like everything
economic wise its man made. The Internationalist bankers IMF type are up to something.
February 16th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Some people are nice others are greedy mean pigs. Greedy mean pigs elect their spawn.
If your a nasty gross beast you will elect a nasty gross beast that mean to represent you.
duuuuuuuu
February 16th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
we are just pawns to the people that run the currency. Its a racket if is was not the books would be open and they aren’t on purpose. Where the hell do you think 11 trillion game
from thin air and you pay the interest and they laugh.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
thats why you can’t trust anything they same. they are schemer and plotters and killers.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
they tell us The American revolution was fought over taxes. That is the scam. It was fought
over the control of the currency. He who controls the currency makes the rules.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
the war of 1812 was another war over banking.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
if you don’t have a Billion of the US PUBLIC DEBT you got screwed. If you don’t get a Million from this stimulous you got screwed. Because you got the DEBT. But no fun…….
February 16th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Hi Lucy!
I’m a county or two above you in Mendoland. Can’t believe people from Marin are on
this site. Keep whackin your way out of the matrix.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
for examble I have been noticing that TV news doesn’t cover that many countries outside
of America. Plus all the dumbasses ever talk about is FDR. Morganthau had more power
Either the dumbasses on Tv don’t know or want you to know. I don’t know if they are dumb or not. To study the Great depression is stupid. it is a different country with different problems. The world had a Depression not just us in the 1930’s cause the Elite world bankers wanted it that way. That way they good have WWII. The Elite world banks run the world
in secret they set the policies. They want war war comes they want peace peace comes.
You can make people fight by jerking the economy around. Are they worried? No they
are plotting. We think they are plotting more war what else? Thats how they work.
They plot wars that is why 9/11 is important that was the ’stimulous” we just got
the tears and saddness and war. They got what they wanted. i don’t like them.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I don’t like tortue but I mean if you were going to torture somebody I would start at home first if you know what I mean. If you wanted to know what the fuck they are doing to us right now.
The enemy is here. The liitle people just try to live its the ruling class they are the plotters.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
we wrecked the world’s other banks they did not wreck ours. So somehow there is something
being plotted here. The really might put us on trains and cull organs to feed the elites
pets. They might feed us the vulture capitalists.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Please don’t let your kids die for them please. Please stuff is not what they tell us they always lie. We do not know the AGENDA we can only watch and try to think what they are up to. They are preditory type people that is what David Icke means by reptillian they got
a plan an agenda.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
THINK ABOUT THIS ..what does the NWO do????
It promotes fear!!!!!
WHAT DOES PRISON PLANET DO?????
IT PROMOTES FEAR!!!!! ARE YOU GETTING THE PICTURE NOW??????
February 16th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
BOYCOTT The BOSTON GLOBE.
Time to end the boston globes speech and newspapers
February 16th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
think about this.. what does NWO do?
it promotes tyranny!
What does prisonplanet do?
it promotes bill of rights and constitution!!!! are you getting the picture now???
February 17th, 2009 at 6:31 am
I don’t smoke…wish I liked it but I don’t..Wished More had the freedom to..to do more of whatever they wish, just like yesteryear…What was prohibition all about??? A Glitch… Home grown tobacco…Made in the Great U.S.A. Smoking like adults…Dealing with the smoke like real adults…Today we learned how to be whiny and ultra-sensitive…can’t stomach a little smoke…Breath car-fumes instead whiners…War on Drugs, another Glitch….
March 10th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I read these comments once in awhile and come to the same conclusion. Most comments are nothing but fluff. They have very little in the way of serious meaning nor do they offer any serious discussion on fighting the New World Order.
I will just keep educating myself and learning as much as I can from the many articles and shows. By continued knowledge and truth I will do my best to educate others about the New World Order and hopefully be part of the revolution to stop them.
I am almost 50 years old and have been reading about the New World Order since I was 12. So I have been aroung long enough to live and see all the things I have read over the years come true. Take your liberty and freedom seriously people.