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The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » The NY AG’s Anti-Free-Speech Shakedown Racket
Started by TLF · 10 months ago
11 months ago
http://www.ncmec.org/missingkids/servlet/NewsEv...
The NCMEC is a quasi-government agency established by Congress in 1984. It receives the bulk of its funds from the federal government. The NCMEC authorized federal funding was just increased by Public Law 110-240 (signed 3 June 2008) to $40 million.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc....
The censorship scheme that Comcast helped bring about is extremely suspect in light of Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U.S. 58 (1963).
http://supreme.justia.com/us/372/58/case.html
Comcast's resistance to further state action by the NY AG doesn't clean their hands.
11 months ago
I suspect that the left (not you, Jack) is cutting off its free speech nose to spite its net neutrality face. Or something.
11 months ago