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Bill Clinton: Hey, let’s have a Ministry of Truth, or something « Hot Air
Bill Clinton: Create Internet agency - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com
Ed Morrissey nails it as per usual. "We have free speech primarily to hold government accountable, not the Internet." Also as per usual... Bill Clinton has the bass-ackwards view. (and a near fatal case of hypocrisy fever) Hey Billy Jeff! Don't go away mad, just go away.
Bill Clinton: Hey, let’s have a Ministry of Truth, or something « Hot Air
Everywhere else but Washington, this would qualify as high irony. In the Beltway, however, it only qualifies as another pathetic attack on free speech. Bill Clinton attacked free speech on the Internet yesterday, telling CNBC that it would be legitimate for the government to create an agency to discredit political arguments and quash Internet rumors:
Bill Clinton: Create Internet agency - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com
Bill Clinton doesnt like all the misinformation and rumors floating on the Internet. And he thinks the United Nations or the U.S. government should create an agency to do something about it.
It would be a legitimate thing to do, Clinton said in an interview airing Friday on CNBC.
The agency, Clinton said, would have to be totally transparent about where the money came from and would have to be independent because if its a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the internet.
Ed Morrissey nails it as per usual. "We have free speech primarily to hold government accountable, not the Internet." Also as per usual... Bill Clinton has the bass-ackwards view. (and a near fatal case of hypocrisy fever) Hey Billy Jeff! Don't go away mad, just go away.