Sen. Lieberman Wants a "Terrorist" Flag On Blogspot.com Websites

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Mighty BOB!

News flash: Old guy doesn't know how Internet works. More at 11.

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win7fanboi

not just any old guy, a lawmaker who wants to decide what should be banned on the interwebs.

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Mighty BOB!

mm, good point. I should have said "old white politician"

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Biceps

Ever notice how much this jerk looks like Senator Palpatine from Star Wars?

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I Jedi

And this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.

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Bad Kharma

I heard that Lieberman and Gingrich were doing a centrefold for "The Men of Dementia" magazine.

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Teeebs

You can't have freedom of speech without some undesireable content.  Once you go down that censorship slippery slope there is NO going back....

 

Joe needs to go!  Maybe a nice day trip off a short pier.....

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bpstone

Google does nothing about the current reports they get. Adding another term is useless if they never do any damn thing about them.

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w2ed

Dear Joseph Lieberman:

The world does not need your kind of censorship idiocy.  Please retire and go ____ yourself.

Signed,

Just another persn that has disliked you since the days of Mortal Kombat and Night Trap...

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limitbreaker

that guys looks like a real douche

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chop_slap

It keeps him closer to the rest of the assholes.

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compro01

Poster Compro01 wants a "nutcase" flag on Senator Lieberman letters.

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I Jedi

I think the true issue here is that no one is coming up with an innovative idea that works for all parties. I see Tumblr users and others calling their Congressman to bitch about SOPA, and I see Congress trying to enact legislation that I can already see would be harmful; yet, no middle party has come forward to actually offer any sort of ideas that would work for both web hosters, citizens, and the government itself. Besides, I think Joe Liberman is wrong. I remember going on the Internet a few years ago to look up how to make an atomic bomb. Why, because I was intrigued that the information was online for all to see, yet, I never planned to create one, and not that very many people can to begin with.

To conclude, I think that the man who talked about blowing up government buildings may have been out of his constitutional right to do so. It's fine to talk about how to make a bomb, but it becomes much more gray when we start adding bombs and specific buildings into the mix. There are certain things that we, as Americans, cannot say, such as things that slander others and ruin their reputation; however, I'm not quite sure where blowing up a specific building falls into, and he may now be subject to the patriot act if the F.B.I. and D.H.S. wants to pursue this matter.

Besides, everyone knows that if you mix equal parts of gasoline and concentrated orange juice, you get napalm.

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warptek2010

You can indeed find plans to build an atomic bomb. Why wouldn't you be able to find such plans? It's the fissionable material that is impossible for your average left/rightwing kook to acquire that makes the knowledge open. 

I rememeber as a young boy in the 70's, my older brother having in his possesion a book entitled "The Poor Man's James Bond", where in it you could make all kinds of 'neat' (and highly illegal) things like homemade weapons from bombs, guns, throwing stars, flame throwers and the like. I doubt you'd be able to find that book in the library today.

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I Jedi

You misread what I said. I said I looked up how to make an atomic bomb, but said few could actually make one. :P

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win7fanboi

@ Mizufall... as the saying goes "I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you."

Wondering when congress will be rid of these old morons. I am sure the new generation of congressmen will be more informed, just not sure if there moral fortitude will be on par or worse (if possible).

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Caboose

One can only hope!

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nsvander

I am pretty sure that anyone who took a high school chemistry and physics class, already knows how to make explosives.  Its not like its a secert on how it works.  

 

Next up on Lieberman's list of flags, the periodic table of elements!!!

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Danthrax66

"advocated violence against the state and provided directions on how to create explosives" Pretty sure it's legal to do that. It isn't legal to actually commit those acts.

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alexw1234

HEAR HEAR Mizufall

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Mizufall

I wish our government official would hire someone with knowledge of how the internet works (pretty much any 16 year old will do) and consult with them before making fools of themselves.

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