Supreme Court Justice to Matt Drudge: "It's over." You'll be shut down.

[7.62NATO]

This is one of the first steps before they haul you off like cattle to the gulags.


During an appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Drudge asserted that copyright laws which prevent websites from even linking to news stories were being advanced.

“I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge. “They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going to make it so you can’t even use headlines.”

“To have a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over, they’ve got the votes, which means time is limited,” he added, noting that a day was coming when simply operating an independent website could be outlawed.

“That will end (it) for me – fine – I’ve had a hell of a run,” said Drudge, adding that web users were being pushed into the cyber “ghettos” of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

“This is ghetto, this is corporate, they’re taking your energy and you’re getting nothing in return – nothing!”

http://www.infowars.com/matt-drudge-copyright-laws-could-outlaw-linking-to-websites/

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

And when those media whores loose all that traffic that Drudge generates for them?

How can fair-use become no-use?

So don't use headlines, use descriptions of the link? How in the hell can you outlaw links? Isn't that the basis of the interwebs?

Is there a case out there wending its way to the SCOTUS that shows where the lines are now?

Will you have to get permission to re-tweet something?

The funny thing to me is a picture of Drudge in that funny hat sitting with a justice in the black robes. When did Drudge start dating Sotomayer?

I understand that some people like Info-wars dude, and once in awhile he has something interesting, but I almost think he is dis-info-wars more than anything.

[TAZ]

that will be very odd as even CNN, NPR link and redistribute AP stories. Guess it will have to be selective enforcement.

Wonder what will happen when conservative takes office?

[sevenhelmet]

Uh, enforcability? I'm not exactly sure what point is trying to be made here- if it's that things can't be linked on the web and independent websites will be shut down then congratulations- you have just ended the Internet.

I'm doubtful that is going to be the case.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Someone once said the internet is the most powerful weapon since the printing press.

One step closer to censorship.

[SteyrAUG]

Someone once said the internet is the most powerful weapon since the printing press.

One step closer to censorship.

As someone who has been active on the internet since 1999, I've seen a LOT of changes and regulation. You can no longer easily access the same information that you could 10 years ago.

Google "cornell hostage crisis" and you will get pages about the Iranian hostage crisis. If you don't specifically look for Willard Straight Hall you won't easily find out about the time when a group of African American students took hostages and forced a curriculum change at gunpoint.

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Ask any college student and they all know about voter intimidation by the KKK, ask them about the Cornell University Hostage Crisis and get a blank stare.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Samuel L. Jackson, yup that one, was one of the "students" who took those hostages. One of them being the Martin Luther King Sr., yeah MLK's father.

I have no doubt the powers at be want to censor and or use search histories to identify those they deem as threats. That's just on the surface.

[Business_Casual]

but I almost think he is dis-info-wars more than anything.

He probably has a cube right next to Hoagland in Langley.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

He probably has a cube right next to Hoagland in Langley.

I guess 'dis' takes on official connotations. Maybe Mis-info-wars is more appropriate in that is seems that a lot of his stories end up not being totally vetted and accurate. I don't know what to think of him. He seems bat-crap crazy sometimes.

[Outlander Systems]

Alex Jones? Zero ****s given.

Drudge said this:


“I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge. “They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going to make it so you can’t even use headlines.”

“To have a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over, they’ve got the votes, which means time is limited,” he added, noting that a day was coming when simply operating an independent website could be outlawed.

If you can't see the implications here...

[Firefly]

Yep. The internet was a complete, well functioning Anarchy well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the PATRIOT Act, and other various reversal of freedoms.

There is a lot of censorship going on and being attempted. Remember when Obama got in office and didn't want to allow Fox News press crews as they were not "legitimate news"?

I also loved how he dismissed Edward Snowden, a CIA trained NSA operative, as "just some computer nerd". Yeah, Mr. Yo....and he gave s lot of your secret shit to the Soviets. Just as easy as PFC Call me Cait dumped it on Wikileaks.

Mix ignorance with stupidity and give it volition and you have modern government.

In the 30s, you could control people. Now? Oh ho ho ho no, you can't.
The web will just get deeper and darker, and stupid middle aged people in office will look dumber and dumber.

Look at Bitcoin. It's not the future, but signs of things to come. Since your offshore accounts are seizable and you can be taxed even if living abroad

[Moose-Knuckle]

If Alex Jones was a true independent alarmist to the evil doing's of the NWO he would have been found with kiddie porn on his hard drive or just given the old Vince Foster treatment by now.

I've always viewed him as agent provocateur, disinformation practitioner, CONITELPRO, etc. take your pick.

[Outlander Systems]

If that were true, Clark Howard, Ralph Nader, David Stockman, etc. would have been taken down a long time ago.


If Alex Jones was a true independent alarmist to the evil doing's of the NWO he would have been found with kiddie porn on his hard drive or just given the old Vince Foster treatment by now.

I've always viewed him as agent provocateur, disinformation practitioner, CONITELPRO, etc. take your pick.

[Business_Casual]

Every once in a while in the Soviet Union, they'd try and then execute a farm or factory manager for sabotage or incompetence. Pravda would dutifully blame missing the goals of the five year plan on such nefarious deeds. In the West we were flabbergasted by the acceptance of the average Soviet of these stories.

Now the same tricks are played by our media and you get called a conspiracy nut if you don't believe some weedy nerd killed 99 people with 98 shots in three minutes then committed suicide with a paperclip...

[Moose-Knuckle]

If that were true, Clark Howard, Ralph Nader, David Stockman, etc. would have been taken down a long time ago.

Alex Jones gets all the traffic i.e. money. Those other guys don't have the voice Alex Jones and company do. But who know's. The PSYOP has so many layers of misdirection everyone who gives a damn and tries to discern the truth ends up chasing their tails down the rabbit hole.