How the FUCK can that possibly pass?
I’m sure he’ll lump it in with “campaign reform”, somehow. :rolleyes:
I don’t understand why he cares. Can anyone explain it to me?
He did make the following statement yesterday:
http://mccain.senate.gov/press_office/view_article.cfm?ID=779
Uh… that’s a full quote, but I’m pretty sure he won’t mind. 
JohnT: Thank you for clearing that up.
Guin, you should double check your sources before showing your outrage. It looks like the article you linked to was just trying to smear McCain.
Jim
I suspect that the devil is in the details. Senator McCain did not mention it in his press release, but this News.com article says:
What that means I don’t know. Does it means that sex-offenders will no longer have any rights to post in the blogosphere, even on matters completely unrelated to their offense or to child pornography? If I were a convicted sex-offender, would I no longer have the right to post this message, and would the Chicago Reader have to delete it if they found it came from the email address of a sex offender? It seems to me that Senator McCain may be casting the net too widely here.
From the press release:
"For example, the speech rights of bloggers and others online would not be impacted because the legislation does not require the monitoring of users or the content of any communication. Nor does it require online service providers to seek out child pornography on their sites. Rather, it requires online service providers to report child pornography when they become aware of it…"
In other words, it’s a toothless bill that’ll do nothing – a complete waste of time, and nothing but posturing.
Remind me again why people are so in love with McCain?
It does more than just require the reporting of child porn, it also calls for sites like MySpace or sites which allow personal blogs or diaries to delete the profiles for sex offenders (regardless of content, apparently). That part, at least, has clear First Amendment problems.
If anything ultimately passes, though, it will probably just be a requirement for websites to report “illegal” material posted by users. At first blush, that sounds kind of harmless but i wonder if it could be expanded past pornography and give the government a way to go after websites for copyrighted material (clips from television shows, songs, etc). It might be a backdoor way to go after YouTube.
I think this is just the first attempt by the Pubs to rehabilitate themselves as the defenders of America’s children, in the wake of the Foley scandal.
So what if it’s “sex offenders” rather than “pedophiles”, or websites rather than instant messages? Most Americans neither know nor care about the differences.
John McCain is not our friend, alas.
'cuz… um… he’s a maverick! That’s it, a maverick! And a straight talker!! And a POW!!! And the only Republican member of the Keating Five!!! Which proves he’s bipartisan!!!(Uh… let’s leave that one off the talking points)And Karl Rove was a big poopyhead to him in 2000 and the enemy of my enema is my friend or something like that.
I’m so glad that Senator McCain/Clinton/whoever else is thinking of running for president next year is taking this step to protect the children! I’m sure that they’re not introducing these bills with any ulterior motives either, just a driving concern that our children, aka The Future, need to be protected from social networking sites/video games/whatever “threat” comes up next week.
I think this is set up to shut down or stop certain websites where users are allowed to post whatever pictures they want. There are sections where child porn keeps popping up. Some websites of these types take the removal of these pictures seriously and remove them immediately while others take quite a while to remove them.
I was skeptical of the article when I saw what website published it. :rolleyes:
The reason I like Sen. McCain is that he doesn’t tow the party line. He’s one of the few Senators who will criticize the administration. He openly works with Senators of both parties to get legislation passed (or blocked, as the case may be). I don’t always agree with him (e.g. flag burning amendment) but I respect him.
Because he’s not Hillary Clinton!
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Dude, you might not like McCain, more power to you. But have you ever noticed how many moderates like or at least respect him. Even many on the left respect him. It usually has nothing to do with Clinton and more to do with Bush, Rove and company.
Just saying,
Jim
It’s because most people don’t know dick about him. It bothers me that this moron is so universally revered by the right and the left. Personally, he’s probably not such a bad guy (loves the environment, refused to leave the Hanoi Hilton, etc.), but Bush probably isn’t such a bad Joe Citizen, either. As politicians they’re both shit. And yes, McCain does “tow” [sic] the party line, PunditLisa. He’s a Republican lapdog who grandstands for the party and almost* everything they stand for [*see environment] at every opportunity.
If he was a “maverick”, he would have an (I) next to his name, not an ®. True conservatives do not infringe on First Amendment rights.
I think Cisco has a good point. ISTM, McCain has got an incredibly soft ride from the media. The only thing we ever get is that he’s a MODERATE and goddamn PRINCIPLED! I get the impression he really knows how to “play ball” with the media and is thus beloved by them.
So principled, of course, that he was one of the Keating Five.
He is not even really a moderate. He is fiscally closer to a fiscal conservative. He just is not in the religious right. Cisco made some great points. A lot of people get caught up in his image. He does appear to be more forthright than the average politician and so people that disagree with him, respect him.
I have mentioned several dozen times on the board that I am a Green Republican. I am dedicated to the environment, yet I am a Hawk and lean towards fiscal conservative. Can you see why I might like McCain?
I dislike his kowtowing to Falwell lately and his anti-abortion views. I like his campaign reform, his fighting toe-to-toe with Cheney on Torture. I like the fact he has bucked the party more than more Republicans in office over the last six years.
I highly respect his war record. For what it is worth, he was cleared of the Keating Five charges. I wish this would stop getting repeated so often.
Jim