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The "internet license" proposal is likely hyperbolic rhetoric being used to underscore a more moderate point that MS wants to make.

Still, it's becoming commonplace to hear these kind of draconian, totalitarian proposals, from all ends of the political spectrum, and it's not inconceivable that at some point, one of these proposals will end up enacted in law.

Perhaps we will eventually need to construe this kind of rhetoric as an overt statement of intent to undermine the constitution, and reinstate prosecutions for seditious libel.



> " . . .reinstate prosecutions for seditious libel."

A censor's wet dream, that.




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