Cass Sunstein, The Fairness Doctrine and unconstitutional subversion

Cass Sunstein?; I know of him, and it is not good. He has proposed some pretty wacked out ideas but the worst of these is his support for the ineptly named 'Fairness Doctrine.' This would suppossedly level the playing field for talk radio, the internet and other avenues of communications. the left has been batting this one back and forth for years. Look for Obama, handle by Sunstein, to make a push to try and ram this through and torpedo free speech and our first amendment. But doing thngs legally and Constitutionally has never been a worry of the Obama administration. One only has to look at Obama's flagrant use of appointing Czars to see how much he cares about the constitutionality of such moves.

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By Chris Slavens

ObamaNet: The Coming Online Censorship

Most people have never heard of Cass Sunstein, despite conservative alarm at his 2009 appointment to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The Harvard-educated regulatory czar has, in addition to proposing other ludicrous ideas, called for a hunting ban in the U.S., claimed that exposure to sunlight is unhealthy, and proposed that Americans celebrate April 15 as a sort of tax holiday. As if those aren’t enough, Sunstein is also an advocate of a federally enforced Internet “fairness doctrine.”

Claiming that the uncensored World Wide Web, on which anyone can write or read the content of his or her choice, is a threat to level-headed democratic government, he wants to impose a 24-hour cooling off period for emails (to prevent the sending of angry missives), and create mandatory “electronic sidewalks,” which would display links to opposing views alongside all opinion-based content. Somehow, it seems unlikely that these state-controlled sidewalks would link to tea party or libertarian websites.

In addition, the constitutional law professor has stated that, “under imaginable conditions,” conspiracy theories might be banned, such as those related to the Kennedy assassination, or Obama’s country of birth, and has suggested a tax, “financial or otherwise,” on those who propagate such theories. What sort of tax would fall under “otherwise?” Body parts, perhaps? Fingers for bloggers; tongues for talk radio hosts?
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