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Long ties to Koch brothers ( and KOCH's AFP) key to Cain's campaign

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10 Types of Sites You Should Block at Work and Why

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Is the internet the next 'Video Nasty'?

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EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO: Man Knocked Out, Beaten By Entire ‘Hood’ For Talking Sh*t…

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Television networks block Google TV from accessing web-based content (update)

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Enormous Ice Block Breaks Off Greenland Glacier

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Ex-Blocker Eases the Pain of a Break-Up

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Ireland 'starts blocking websites'

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New Bill Would Let Obama Police Internet for National Security Reasons - The Daily Beast

A new bill rocketing through Congress would give the president sweeping powers to police the Web for national-security reasons. Could this be a way to block WikiLeaks?

Is cyberspace about to get censored?

Confronting threats ranging from Chinese superhackers to the release of secret documents on WikiLeaks and other whistleblowing websites, the Obama administration may be on the verge of assuming broad new powers to regulate the Internet on national-security grounds.

The powers are granted to the White House under a bipartisan bill that was introduced in the Senate only last week but is already moving quickly through Congress toward passage. The legislation has generated considerable buzz on tech blogs—but drawn little notice so far by major news organizations.

“The way it seems to be worded, the bill could easily represent a threat to free speech,” said Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

The bill would grant President Obama the power to declare a “national cyber-emergency” at his discretion and force private companies tied to the Web, including Internet service providers and search engines, to take action in response—moves that could include limiting or even cutting off their connections to the World Wide Web for up to 30 days.

While the bill’s sponsors say it is intended to create a shield to defend the United States and its largest companies from the growing threat of cyberattacks, civil-liberties activists tell The Daily Beast they fear the bill could give the White House the ability to effectively shut down portions of the Internet for reasons that could prove to be politically inspired.

“We have seen through recent history that in an emergency, the Executive Branch will interpret grants of power very broadly,” said Gregory Nojeim of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a group that promotes Internet freedom. He said the bill, which he described as moving “at lightning speed in congressional terms,” was too loosely worded in its definition of which companies would be regulated and what they would be required to do in an emergency.

Wayne Crews, vice president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-enterprise think tank, said he believed the bill was so broadly worded that it might even allow the White House to take aim at whistleblowing websites that were believed to pose a national-security threat, such as WikiLeaks, in the guise of a “cyber-emergency.”

“That would be a concern of mine,” Crews tells The Daily Beast. “The way it seems to be worded, the bill could easily represent a threat to free speech.”

WikiLeaks, which is nominally based in Sweden and promotes itself as a global resource for whistleblowers, announced this week that it is preparing to post a classified Pentagon video depicting an American airstrike in Afghanistan last year that left as many as 140 people dead, most of them children and teenagers.

The Protecting Cyberspace Act was introduced last week by Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the panel’s ranking Republican. Counterparts in the House Homeland Security Committee have endorsed identical legislation, meaning that a final bill could be adopted by the full Congress within weeks. The White House has not taken a stand on the legislation so far.A new bill rocketing through Congress would give the president sweeping powers to... more

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OKCupid Hides Good-Looking People From Less Attractive Users

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The fight to stop sulfide mines in Upper Peninsula continues: Rally at Michigan State Capitol to protest raid at sacred Eagle Rock

Ojibwa Treaty Rights trampled once again - by state of Michigan Kennecott Minerals... more

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Drew Nelson song video: Treaty Rights Rally at Michigan Capitol to protest police raid, Kennecott sulfide mining

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Indian Country Today: Kennecott Minerals orders massive police raid, arresting Ojibwa at sacred Eagle Rock

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Indian Country Today: Before Kennecott Minerals Police Raid at sacred Eagle Rock: KBIC Tribal Council backs campers

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Indian Country Today newspaper: Defending Sacred Eagle Rock

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Michigan American Indian Standoff: Tribal camp at base of Sacred Eagle Rock to stop Kennecott acid mine

American Indians and non-natives are encouraged to visit the northern Michigan... more

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Kennecott Minerals jails 58-year-old mine opponent during daily walk at Sacred Eagle Rock; Sparks Native American standoff

When officials with the Eagle Mine Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula arrested... more

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Senate Votes To Block Pay Raise for Lawmakers in 2011

The Senate voted Thursday to block the annual cost-of-living adjustment for members... more

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