http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0L80ZF20150204
china wants to control bloggers and information and they are doing a pretty good job of it
its got to be communist appropriate
of course our great ally and NATO member extraordinaire Turkey does likewise to anyone telling the truth
http://article.wn.com/view/2014/02/1...or_new_limits/
freedom house has studied this and finds the trajectory of government control of the internet especially alarming
and in the good ole united states the democrats are of a like mind
dianne feinstein and dick durbin and chuckie schumer attack free expression and want to limit and control who can be a "journalist"
http://watchdog.org/100682/feinstein...-a-journalist/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ia-shield-law/
Obama has his own plans:
He wants to control the percentage of "journalists" not already under his control
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ne...rticle/2544363
http://archive.mrc.org/biasbasics/biasbasics3.asp
of course obama's right hand man van jones couldn't keep his mouth shut and had to be let go but as he said "we are coming for the media and thats not all"
all of this and the fairness doctrine as well
are there any classical liberals out there?
the philosophy committed to the ideal of limited government, liberty of individuals, freedoms of religion (not freedom of worship), speech, the press, assembly and free markets?
modern liberalism is the force of another's power over us, not too far removed in its ideas from communism or in practice from submission (islam)