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33 Responses to ““Reasonable Restrictions””

1. Anthony Damiani Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm

   I deem people who say things like that impossibly scary…

2. 24AheadDotCom Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 8:42 pm

   Considering all the good things that Digg/HuffPost did for BHO, it’s a shame that he now wants to shut them down. My hope in change is definitely being harshed.

3. MikeJ Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:01 pm

   And when you want levelheaded discussion of the way the real world works, what better place to turn than /.?

   Oh yeah, anywhere.

4. Realist Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:08 pm

   One useful thing about confirmation hearings, though, is that you can ask people about stuff like that.

   And then what? The Dems approved almost every Bush appointee, you really think there’s any chance of them rejecting an Obama appointee, whatever his stance on the internet?

5. Ed Marshall Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:30 pm

   I had to check because I quit reading /. years ago but my slashdot id is 34,189. I’m crusty.

6. Joseph Martin Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:31 pm

   Um, there are plenty of proposed restrictions on Internet content…this is one of those vague “gotcha” statements taken out of context. And conservatives, ironically enough, support a lot of them COPA, Usenet (for “inappropriate” porn mainly e.g. bestiality, underage participants, etc.), stock manipulation — the recent “steve jobs has had a heart attack” scare.

   e.g.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act in 1998 in particular was a big deal

7. Jay Ballou Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm

   You gotta love the way this comment was ripped out of context, and all the ignorant, reactionary response to it. Here’s some context:

   http://www.volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_11_16-2008_11_22.shtml#1227291133

8. Joseph Martin Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm

   http://www.volokh.com/posts/1227291133.shtml

   InstaPundit points to a 1999 program in which Eric Holder — then Deputy Attorney General, and now President-Elect Obama’s choice for Attorney General — was expressing support for “reasonable restrictions” on certain kinds of Internet speech. I thought I’d give a bit more context, especially since it relates to one of my research areas.

   The recording seems to come from an April 25, 1999 Face the Nation segment discussing the Littleton massacre. Here’s an excerpt from the CBS transcript:

   [Host BOB] SCHIEFFER: Mr. Holder, you can also learn how to make a bomb on the Internet, on the Web. How do you police that?

   Mr. HOLDER: Well, it’s very difficult, given the tenor of the recent Supreme Court cases. The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is going to be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at.

   I assume that Holder was talking about what was then a bill, but was enacted four months later (Pub. L. 106-54) as 18 USC § 842(p):

9. Jay Ballou Says:
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:56 pm

   Joseph, great minds think alike.

   Why is Matt channeling InstaPundit?

10. Jay Ballou Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    you really think there’s any chance of them rejecting an Obama appointee, whatever his stance on the internet?

    Rejecting Holder because of this statement would be insane.

11. woolie Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    Censorship is bipartisan, people. Why won’t you ever think of the children? The fight for free speech is an underdog role by its very nature.

12. ssa Says:
    November 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 am

    Holder as AG is what should come across as scary. He’s a centrist Ashcroft…

    http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/

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