Bill Clinton: Create Internet agency

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"Bill Clinton doesn’t like all the misinformation and rumors floating on the Internet. And he thinks the United Nations or the U.S. government should create an agency to do something about it. “It would be a legitimate thing to do,” Clinton said in an interview airing Friday on CNBC. The agency, Clinton said, would “have to be totally transparent about where the money came from” and would have to be “independent” because “if it’s a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the internet.”

“Let’s say the U.S. did it, it would have to be an independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else because people wouldn’t think you were just censoring the news and giving a different falsehood out,” Clinton said.

“That is, it would be like, I don’t know, National Public Radio or BBC or something like that, except it would have to be really independent and they would not express opinions, and their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors” he said. “And also, they would also have to have citations so that they could be checked in case they made a mistake. Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it’s a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money.”

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I’m beginning to have the same thoughts about Bill that I had about Jimmy Carter every time he opens his mouth. Mod would probably delete it and suspend me if I posted them though.
 
Stupid idea, both because of the fact that it would probably violate the Constitution but also because the very nature of the internet itself renders such efforts impossible.
 
LotusCarsLtd said:
Stupid idea, both because of the fact that it would probably violate the Constitution but also because the very nature of the internet itself renders such efforts impossible.
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Violating the constitution isn’t on any liberals worry list.
 
LotusCarsLtd said:
Stupid idea, both because of the fact that it would probably violate the Constitution but also because the very nature of the internet itself renders such efforts impossible.
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The idea isn’t to restrain any form of speech or communication on the internet, the idea is to create an organization that is simply meant to verify information. They wouldn’t delete or censor false information, just make note of it being false. A sort of independent verification of news articles. I’m not sure such a thing is really possible in reality, since even if it did its job perfectly people would continue to insist that they were simply hiding the truth about things like Obama being born in Kenya and that the organization simply had a bunch of people from the other side of the table working for them.
 
bellasbane said:
Isn’t this was FactCheck.org is does already?
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Pretty much, the hope seems to be that it would just be a better funded more official version of that and for that reason more people would use it/trust it. I’m not so sure that it would really be any more effective, but there could be some uses to it I am sure.
 
Of course if they do decide to go with Mr. Clinton’s idea, I understand that this guy has lots of experience and is currently looking for a job:

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Possibly Jamie Gorelick is looking for another government post.

If you don’t know who she is, … well, according to my friends in Australia … I should look up “mistress of disaster”.
 
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