Re:Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate
by _delirium on Friday December 16, 2011 @01:39PM
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> None of the cities blessed with Occupy camps proposed censoring the internet, for example.
Mostly because internet regulation has been federalized. When they can, cities attempt to ban things left and right; many of the Supreme Court precedents on film censorship involve municipal statutes. Not to mention their love of "free speech zones".
Cities and localities have issues, too, but are far more representative of and responsive to their own residents' needs than Congress. (None of the cities blessed with Occupy camps proposed censoring the internet, for example.)