The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Will Republicans turn against Talk Radio and the Internet too?
I think Glenn Reynolds may be on to something here; and I don't like it one bit. I always had thought Orwell was worst-case-scenario science fiction. But obviously--because he was so close to the Communists before his seeing them in action in the Spanish Civil War changed his entire outlook--Orwell was well aware what the ideological thought police are capable of. A pity that the American people seem to be sleeping through the demise of everything their country was supposed to stand for:
PREDICTION: Right now it's Democrats pushing a return to the "Fairness Doctrine," but they'll soon be joined by Republicans tired of things like this, and there will be pressure to extend regulation to the Internet. Incumbistan will unite under threat from outside.
Labels: Blogging, First Amendment, Talk Radio, The Internet, The Left, Thought Police
