Coming June 3: The twin towers of Internet censorship and atomic reactor terror

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3319.shtml


US Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman are linking Internet censorship with atomic power in a way that should terrify us all.

McCain is the real power behind Lieberman-Warner global warming bill on which the Senate could vote as early as Tuesday, June 3. As a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, McCain is pushing hard for massive subsidies to build new atomic reactors. Despite his "free market" ideology, this bill may hand a half-trillion taxpayer dollars to an industry that cannot get private backing for a failed, terror-target technology.

Now its official co-sponsor, Connecticut's Lieberman, has taken the issue into the realm of Internet censorship. In a recent floor speech, he demanded that YouTube remove numerous postings that he claims promote terrorism. Yet the very bill he and McCain are pushing would force taxpayers to fund atomic reactors that are easily accessible to terrorists as machines of radioactive mass destruction.

Calling it a "ludicrous" attack on free speech, The New York Times scoffs at the claim that the Internet is "one of the primary drivers" of terrorism. The charge comes in Lieberman's report on "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat."

The Times found it "profoundly disturbing that an influential senator would even consider telling a media company to shut down constitutionally protected speech." The ACLU has warned that similar efforts "could be a precursor to proposals to censor and regulate speech on the Internet."

In a dangerous capitulation, YouTube then did pull down some 80 videos.

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read on, neo cons are such lovely people

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1. Lieberman is still angry that he was beaten in the primary and

blames the internet. All those loony lefties, doncha know; unlike the right wing media that call for the assassination of Democratic Party leaders in their most Rwandan way.