Dutch Authority Just Weeks Away From Gagging Health Journalists and Restricting Free Speech

'Under the new guidelines, any website making a medical claim will first require approval and second will be prohibited from making any other claim regarding, for example nutritional value, or identifying any other value (or detriment) of specific ingredients.

So a specific website will not be able to associate, for example chocolate, with any health benefit without approval. The same restriction will apply to any ads running on the website or any links that it may make to other websites making their own health claims regarding the benefits of chocolate. 

Can you grasp the amount of restrictions this type of regulation will attempt to enforce? I really don't think the people of the Netherlands have anything to worry about. Any piece of paper that attempts to enact control measures with this amount of fear and control in mind only head in one direction...down the toilet.' 

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The Coming Collapse of the Internet

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'A few months back when my pal George told me he wanted to write a book on the collapse of the internet I was skeptical.  Yeah, I knew about the potential for an EMP but if that happened, there would be far more to worry about than the internet.  I am also fairly well versed in of government censorship and the potential for the pulling of the proverbial “kill switch”.

As far as government censorship goes, in my opinion that is a non-issue.  Not that it is not a big deal because it is.  The reason it is a non-issue is that in my opinion, we are already being monitored and watched – especially certain bloggers and online journalists that dare to challenge the established system.  (I merely need to look at my daily page hits from the Department of Homeland Security to know that is true.)'

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Internet Censorship: ACTA enacted,we're too late...

Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA 

'Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as “executive agreement,” although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.'


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Section 105 of SOPA Threatens Freedom of Health Speech, Aligns with FDA Trilateral Cooperation Charter to Potentially Eliminate Access to Dietary Supplements

'Identifying threats to health freedom and freedom of health speech often requires connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated verbiage in one piece of legislation and a trade agreement, for instance, or reading between the lines to identify the full intent or scope of a provision or phrase added to an unrelated bill. And this is the case with the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), which contains language that could one day target websites that sell, promote, or otherwise talk about the benefits of dietary supplements. Section 105 of SOPA, entitled Immunity for Taking Voluntary Action Against Sites that Endanger Public Health, provisions that service providers, network providers, advertising services, search engines, domain name registry services, and other parties that handle internet content will be immune from prosecution should they decide to arbitrarily pull sites that "endanger the public health."' 

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