Reply #17: Well, sorry to say, he is completely wrong., I'm not being critical of him. This is a huge

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lapse. Let's hope it's poor staff work or simple misunderstandings.

Here's the rap and constructive suggestions.

The bill creates a standard that associates people with "violent radicalization" whose statements on the internet are so strong that they "facilitate" violent radicalization. I hope he doesn't know what he's talking about because he'll change his mind in that case. If he truly favors it, he'll suck on Constitutional rights.

The first bill is a definitions and study bill. When that's over, they'll come back and start making crimes of this, including "facilitation." The hearings were very brief, the witnesses limited and largely incoherent, and CYA Harman kept hurrying things along because they had to go vote. Nice, Congress is assured that their votes are counted.

In any event, if you like Obama, get to him and tell him to pull back and think about it.

btw, DU and other forums like it would be screwed. The liability of having a group of strong willed, intense posters would probably too great. Also, the minute Congress can shut down their constituents, they will. This bill and HR 1955, the House version that already passed are, I suspect, really about Congress not having to answer for it's nonsense. They've received millions of angry emails concerning their vasrious derelictions. They just don't want to hear it anymore.