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Creepy Connecticut Senator Wants Big Tech Watching Your Kids and Universal Age-Verification for the Internet

Stephen Lemons/December 1, 2022December 6, 2022 /Leave a comment

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut combines the worst characteristics of Cotton Mather, Girolamo Savonarola and the Rev. Jerry Falwell — Senior, not Junior. The 76-year-old Democrat’s persistent, self-righteous efforts to censor the internet, using “the kids” as his rallying…

Backpage, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, News, Opinion, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

The Cato Institute, ‘Jawboning’ and the Crusade Against Backpage

Stephen Lemons/October 26, 2022October 27, 2022 /2 Comments

The libertarian, free speech zealots at the Cato Institute have more than once come to the defense of the now-defunct classified listings site, Backpage.com, and its former owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, who along with four former executives and…

Censorship, Freedom of Speech, News, Section 230

Senate Dems Crap Out on Protecting Free Speech, Help Vote Revised EARN It Act Out of Judiciary Committee

Stephen Lemons/July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 /Leave a comment

If you believe in freedom of speech, internet privacy, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and other such rights and privileges, the Democrats are not your friends, as they proved recently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where they helped green-light…

Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Section 230

Senate Judiciary Hearing on Pro-Censorship EARN IT Act Ignores Free Speech, First Amendment Concerns

Stephen Lemons/March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 /Leave a comment

During a two-hour hearing held on March 11 in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on pro-censorship, encryption-busting legislation known as the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act), there was no real discussion of the…

Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Section 230

Sen. Richard Blumenthal Receives ‘First Amendment Defender Award’ on Same Day He Introduces Pro-Censorship Bill

Stephen Lemons/March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 /Leave a comment

In an ironic, man-bites-dog moment, the Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF), a non-profit trade organization, bestowed its 2020 “First Amendment Defender Award” to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on March 5, the same day Blumenthal and fellow sponsors…