Loosing Freedom Part II: When America Looses its Voice
By Rob Hood (05/31/06)
The deep political divide in America has caused a great uproar among internet users recently. Long ago television and newspapers were our major sources of news and there was no one to dispute the findings and reports of organizations like CBS News and numerous others when it came down to politically tied subjects.
Today things are different. The internet has forever changed the way that news and commentary is published. We now have a choice in what kind of reports we listen to and since the internet has come into play, news media just don't like it. Why? For one thing the internet takes away some of the ratings that news organizations get plus it takes away newspaper sales, but these are not the primary reasons for the discontent of the modern day news media.
One word says it all :BLOG! Internet blogs have popped up all over and almost everyone I know has one. I have two of my own. Internet blogs and internet news sites like Cybercast News Service (www.cnsnews.com), World Net Daily, and numerous other major sites have reached an audience that tends to be more conservative in nature than the mainstream news media would like to admit.
Now whenever there is a major world news story brewing we have two side to the story. We have the regular biased mainstream news media story that airs on CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, PBS, or other places as well like The New York Times and other left wing newspapers. Then, we have the internet bloggers that do their own research, come to their own conclusions, and expose the media's flaws in their very biased stories. Many don't take internet bloggers and internet news organizations seriously, but just ask John Kerry and Dan Rather how serious internet news has become. Internet news and bloggers cost John Kerry the presidency and Dan Rather his job. Organizations like The Drudge Report, Human Events, Red State Blog, Townhall.com, The Media Research Center, Newsbusters, and others have made quite an impression in the world of news today. Fox News is known for its conservative following, not because it leans to the right, but because it features both sides of a story instead of one story with one side designed with a political agenda in mind like most of the mainstream stations now.
I figured whenever conservatives like Sean Hannity, Bill Bennett, Rusty Humphries, Tony Snow, and many others like them would get real popular as they are now, liberals would come up with something to restrict conservatives from receiving the whole story and boy oh boy was I ever right! It is called "Net Neutrality" and it is the silliest thing to ever exist in history. There are two sides to this Net Neutrality though. Part of is just about how government would regulate consumer choices in the types of internet services that would be available such as dial-up, DSL, and other types of services. The second part of the net neutrality movement is about what type of content that can be displayed which is greatly feared by religious organizations, conservative groups, and conservative internet bloggers. This movement is being pushed somewhat by Google and a handfulof other companies with a political agenda.
Recently two really great conservative news/commentary sites have been "neutralized" by Google because some liberal reported "hate speech" to Google on the site New Media Journal (www.newmediajournal.us). Google has systematically banned conservative news articles on certain sites if it contains any talk of radical, militant Islam being anything other than o.k. Mich News (www.michnews.com) was the other blocked site that was "neutralized" by Google's very left wing social policies. Google has also played politics in advertising as well. I have hear some complaints about Google refusing to post ads that were paid for because they were too conservative or too Christian. I found out just how biased and left wing Google really is when it comes down to playing fair. Google, at one time, blocked paid ads because the ad promoted a book that was negative towards Bill Clinton. The link to this story is on World Net Daily at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44717
Net Neutrality pretty much says that conservatives cannot say just anything they want even if they live in a country that guarantees freedom of speech. Net Neutrality is just another lame attempt at silencing the conservative movement and already there are organizations passing petitions to restrict Net Neutrality from ever becoming the law of the land. Net Neutrality is dangerous because it takes away the right of free speech in that we cannot say one thing without reporting the direct opposite which defeats the whole purpose of the report to start with. It also takes away the freedom of choice concerning types of services offered from the ISP.
Net Neutrality along with the "Fairness Doctrine" has upset many people today. We can pretty much say that Net neutrality and The Fairness Doctrine are one in the same as far as some things go. The UN does want control of the internet so that they can censor those who oppose them and impose an internet tax on all, as if we weren't taxed enough already. We have to oppose this takeover of the internet so that we can remain a country of free speech with a freedom of choice. Yahoo and Google already censor sites in China. Let's not make America the next target of digital discrimination ( a new term for conservatives to learn). The last thing we need is another government run public service.
I am asking all who love the freedom of internet bogging and the internet in general and do not want it in the hands of the UN or some other power for taxation or censorship, please visit the following sites and help the campaign for a free internet and save the remains of free speech:
www.handsoff.org
www.notouninternet.com
www.net.org
www.cfif.org
I urge you to get involved and tell your leaders in Washington to stop paying attention to the UN's demands of global domination through taxation and legislation. You can sign the petition for the government to keep their hands off the internet here : http://cap.com/cfif/issues/alert/?alertid=8574316&type=CO
REFERENCES:
Google Blocks ad for negative Clinton Book but continues to allow ads bashing Tom Delay
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44717
Demand Better Government! Protect The Future!
www.moveoff.us
Center for Individual Freedom
www.cfif.org
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