House Leadership Moves to Silence Twittering Members (Congress, website, Democrats)

[GigiBowman]

House Leadership Moves to Silence Members


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 9, 2008
CONTACTS: Michael Steel, Kevin Smith, Steve Forde - (202) 225-4000
Boehner Urges Speaker Pelosi to Shut Down Democrats’ Proposed Censorship
of the Internet
House GOP Leader Warns: New “YouTube” Rule Proposed by
Democratic-Controlled House Administration Committee “Would Amount to
New Government Censorship of the Internet”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today
wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), urging her to join him in opposing
a new rule proposed by the Democratic leadership of the House
Administration Committee that would require outside websites such as
YouTube to comply with House regulations before Members of Congress
could post videos on them. Under the proposal, the House Administration
Committee would develop a list of “approved” websites, and Members of
Congress would be restricted to only publishing content using these
sites. Calling it “new government censorship of the Internet,” Boehner
asked Speaker Pelosi to join him in opposing the proposed rule.

continued:House Leadership Moves to Silence Twittering Members « The Batterista Blog

[Habsburg]

Great, even less transparency in the government...

We lose our privacy while they gain more.

[bbkaren]

Nancy Pelosi, being such a stalwart defender of the constitution will surely agree to this...