A great blog by American human rights lawyer Jonathan Turley is well worth a read. Two recent highlights:
- YouTube has again attracted controversy by pulling a video. This time it has removed the video of Marine David Motari throwing a puppy off a cliff as shown below in a different link. The company appears unwilling to recognize that some disturbing videos serve an important public interest, as with the torture videos that it removed earlier involving the Egyptian and Russian abuse.
- Kentucky Representative Tim Couch wants to know who is saying what on the Internet. He has proposed legislation to make anonymous postings online illegal. It would face a daunting challenge on constitutional grounds.Couch would require posters to include their real name, address and e-mail address and fine site hosts for filing to required such identification.
Very interesting idea of representative Couch! Seems that he does not realise that many comments are made by paid Government Misinformation experts.
One only has to read the 911 blogs and comments to know that there are paid Govenment Shills out there trying to debunk reasoned debate on 911 and may other subjects. Think of all the lobby groups that have false fronts for the lodging of blogs.
Oh Hum Mr. Couch perhaps you should be better informed.
Mallee