Socialist Hillary: Breitbart Has “No Right to Exist”

Hillary took an anti-First Amendment turn — unsurprisingly — in a campaign fundraising email claiming Breitbart News has “no right to exist”. She appears ready to shut it down. The FCC might beat her to it though.

There is a plan by the FEC to regulate free online political sites to include free youtube postings and blogs like Drudge and Sean Hannity and much smaller sites.

Her fundraising email is confusing and suggests she gets to decide who has the right to exist among conservative media.

“We’ve had a conservative media in this country for a while,” the email reads. It was sent Thursday and signed by deputy communications director Christina Reynolds. “I don’t always like what they have to say, but I respect their role and their right to exist Reynolds’ which they obviously don’t believe.

“Breitbart is something different,” she says. “They make Fox News look like a Democratic Party pamphlet. They’re a different breed altogether — not just conservative but radical, bigoted, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy peddlers who never have been and never should be anywhere near the levers of power in this country.”

Who is she and how does she get to decide? We do have a Constitution which she apparently will ignore.

That of course is not true but truth doesn’t matter.

Democrats want to regulate speech.

In 2013, Dianne Feinstein tried to regulate free speech with an amendment to the Free Flow of Information Act. Don’t be fooled by the title. It means the exact opposite. They don’t want free flow of information.

Feinstein wants to define who a real reporter is and who gets the protection of the Shield Act. She doesn’t want bloggers to have free speech.

“I can’t support it if everyone who has a blog has a special privilege … or if Edward Snowden were to sit down and write this stuff, he would have a privilege. I’m not going to go there,” she said.

Feinstein introduced an amendment that defines a “covered journalist” as someone who gathers and reports news for “an entity or service that disseminates news and information.” The definition includes freelancers, part-timers and student journalists, and it permits a judge to go further and extend the protections to any “legitimate news-gathering activities.”

She says bloggers are not to be covered by the Shield law along with terrorists. She drew moral equivalence between them.

According to her, you are only a legitimate journalist if you on her list of news services. Fortunately, it didn’t go anywhere.

The Democrat’s Hate Speech bills were being pushed through both houses of congress in 2014.The Democrats found a “crisis” and used it to try to limit speech, though the bills fortunately never passed.

Sen. Markey introduced the Senate Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 (S.2219), which was an update to a two-decade old report on the role of telecommunications—the Internet, radio and TV—”in encouraging hate crimes based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.” It’s companion bill, HR 3878, was introduced by Rep. Hakeem Jefferies.

Under these bills, the Obama administration would get to decide the definition of hate speech in the media. It’s more big government deciding what hate speech is and isn’t.

In February of 2014, the FCC planned a newsroom survey which presented a serious threat to the First Amendment. The proposal was leaked by Ajit Pai who has become a free speech hero.

The survey called for a Critical Information Needs Study (CIN), which as part of its conclusions, required researchers to enter newsrooms and inquire about how editorial decisions were made.  The study was to include print media over which the FCC has no jurisdiction.

The FCC claimed that “this research can be used to identify and understand the critical information needs (CINs) of the American public (with special emphasis on vulnerable/disadvantaged populations).”

Their categories of “critical information” cover the “environment” and “economic opportunities.” Undoubtedly, issues around the green agenda, redistribution, income inequality would be covered. Obama’s promise zones are an initiative of the group commissioned to conduct the study.

The list of efforts by Democrats to control speech, especially political speech is endless. If Hillary wins and gets control of any part of Congress, the First Amendment is in big trouble.

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