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  1. Schumer-Graham-Feinstein-Durbin Sponsor Censorship
  2.    
  3.    
  4.  While the first amendment protects freedom of the press,
  5. �there is no first amendment right for gathering information,�
  6. Schumer claimed at The New York Times� Sources and Secrets
  7. Conference on the press, government and national security.
  8.  
  9.  Here is the legislation Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham
  10. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin want passed into law.
  11.  
  12. http://www.spj.org/pdf/s-987-ffia-schumer-graham.pdf
  13.  
  14.  Don�t let the friendly title fool you - it�s a bill to
  15. censor, shut down and criminalize bloggers and journalists
  16. who cover any sensitive information affecting �national security.�
  17.  
  18.  Our Constitution already protects freedom of the press, this
  19. bill is to nullify that protection, the devil is in the details.
  20.  
  21.  All four of these Senators voted for COICA (which failed)
  22. in previous attempt to censor the internet after Cablegate.
  23.  
  24. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101118/10291211924/the-19-senators-who-voted-to-censor-the-internet.shtml
  25.  
  26. The 19 senators who voted for COICA ;
  27.  
  28. Patrick J. Leahy -- Vermont
  29. Herb Kohl -- Wisconsin
  30. Jeff Sessions -- Alabama
  31. ? Dianne Feinstein -- California ?
  32. Orrin G. Hatch -- Utah
  33. Russ Feingold -- Wisconsin
  34. Chuck Grassley -- Iowa
  35. Arlen Specter -- Pennsylvania
  36. Jon Kyl -- Arizona
  37. ? Chuck Schumer -- New York ?
  38. ? Lindsey Graham -- South Carolina ?
  39. ? Dick Durbin -- Illinois ?
  40. John Cornyn -- Texas
  41. Benjamin L. Cardin -- Maryland
  42. Tom Coburn -- Oklahoma
  43. Sheldon Whitehouse -- Rhode Island
  44. Amy Klobuchar -- Minnesota
  45. Al Franken -- Minnesota
  46. Chris Coons -- Delaware
  47.  
  48.  These four senators have been trying to pass a new censorship
  49. bill referenced as the �Media Shield Law� - a law that would
  50. shield government corruption from the press and the public.
  51.  
  52. Today, March 27 2014, they are still trying to pass this.
  53.  
  54. ---------------------------------------------------------
  55.  
  56.  Several articles have reported on the proposed US media
  57. shield law, stressing that it was designed to exclude
  58. WikiLeaks from the shield protection. We summarize here
  59. what it is all about and quote several press articles.
  60.  
  61. http://wikileaks-press.org/the-us-media-shield-law-and-wikileaks/
  62.  
  63. ---------------------------------------------------------
  64.  
  65. http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/09/12/media-shield-law-which-defines-covered-journalists-moves-onward-to-the-senate
  66.  
  67.  The Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation that
  68. would establish a federal shield law for reporters or
  69. journalists in the United States. The legislation was
  70. amended, before passing out of committee, to define who
  71. would be a �covered journalist� under the proposed shield
  72. legislation.
  73.  
  74.  The proposed shield legislation, the Free of Flow of
  75. Information Act of 2013, was introduced by Sen. Chuck
  76. Schumer as news of the Justice Department seizing an overly
  77. broad set of the Associated Press� phone records for a leak
  78. investigation and of an FBI agent labeling Fox News reporter
  79. James Rosen an �aider, abettor and co-conspirator� in a leak
  80. investigation were making headlines. However, there is nothing
  81. immediately obvious in the proposed media shield that would
  82. protect the press from an agency in government committing
  83. those kind of abuses. It would not protect someone like
  84. New York Times reporter James Risen, who the administration
  85. of President Barack Obama has tried to force to testify
  86. against his source in a leak case despite protest from media
  87. organizations.
  88.  
  89.  Schumer said during the Judiciary Committee meeting that it
  90. would provide a shield for reporters �against unwarranted
  91. intrusion� (a reporters� privilege) but would be �flexible
  92. to account for the legitimate needs of law enforcement,
  93. private litigants and national security.� He added, �It�s
  94. Kevlar, not Kryptonite.�
  95.  
  96.  �Prosecutors will lose sight of the need to preserve the
  97. free flow of information and in their understandable zeal
  98. to prosecute leakers who would seek to do harm to our country
  99. in one way or another,� Schumer said. The bill, sponsored
  100. by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen.
  101. Amy Klobuchar, �would preserve that ability but with real
  102. protections and notice for journalists in all but the most
  103. extreme cases.� ... ...
  104.  
  105.  An amendment from Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator
  106. Dick Durbin passed in committee. As Feinstein said when
  107. presenting the amendment, �I�ve had long-standing concerns
  108. that the language in the bill as introduced would grant a
  109. special privilege to people who really aren�t reporters at
  110. all, who have no professional qualifications whatsoever.�
  111.  
  112.  �The fundamental issue behind this amendment is, should
  113. this privilege apply to anyone, to a seventeen year-old
  114. who drops out of high school, buys a website for five dollars
  115. and starts a blog? Or should it apply to journalists, to
  116. reporters, who have bona fide credentials?� Feinstein asked.
  117.  
  118.  �This bill is described as a reporter shield law. So, I
  119. believe it should be applied to real reporters. The attorney-
  120. client privilege applies to attorneys, not any non-legal
  121. advisor. The spousal privilege applies to spouses, not to
  122. boyfriends and girlfriends. As I described the last time
  123. this committee passed this legislation, this could have been
  124. interpreted to cover hate websites like that of the neo-Nazi
  125. organization, the National Socialist Movement or even Senate
  126. press secretaries,� Feinstein suggested.
  127.  
  128.  Feinstein said the amendment sets up �a test for establishing
  129. bona fide credentials that make one a legitimate journalist.�
  130.  
  131.  A �covered journalist,� under the amendment, would be the
  132. following:
  133.  
  134.   ��an employee, independent contractor, or agent of an
  135. entity or service that disseminates news or information by
  136. means of newspaper; nonfiction book; wire service; news agency;
  137. news website, mobile application or other news or information
  138. service (whether distributed digitally or other wise); news
  139. program; magazine or  other periodical, whether in print,
  140. electronic, or other format; or through television or radio
  141. broadcast, multichannel video programming distributor (as
  142. such term is defined in section 602(13) of the Communications
  143. Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522(13)), or motion picture for public
  144. showing��
  145.  
  146.  The proposed shield law as passed would provide some protections
  147. against journalists being forced to reveal their sources. However,
  148. the Feinstein-Durbin amendment passed is very problematic
  149. specifically because a shield law should cover the act of
  150. journalism, not journalists.
  151.  
  152. FLASHBACK ; Dick Durbin Co-sponsored Most-hated SOPA & PIPA
  153.  
  154. http://capitolfax.com/2012/01/19/durbin-goes-to-ground-during-sopapipa-protest/
  155.  
  156.  �Senator Durbin was also a sponsor for the SOPA / PIPA act,
  157. which would give the government even more power to censor
  158. and control the internet. You would think it would be
  159. impossible at this point to have MORE control, considering
  160. the recent leaks regarding the NSA.�  ?
  161.  
  162. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/06/19/durbin-supplement-bill.aspx
  163.  
  164. ---------------------------------------------------------
  165.  
  166. http://www.naturalnews.com/042061_Free_Flow_of_Information_Act_alternative_media_censorship.html
  167.  
  168.  In response to growing public dissent against the federal
  169. occupying powers, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) has
  170. sponsored a bill known as S. 987, or the Free Flow of
  171. Information Act of 2013, which will purportedly protect
  172. news reporters from being harassed or otherwise maliciously
  173. compelled by the federal government to disclose information
  174. about their private sources -- this is, after all, how
  175. honest media outlets are able to keep the government in
  176. check and act as whistleblowers when necessary to shine
  177. the light on corruption. But Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
  178. has successfully added an amendment to this Trojan Horse
  179. bill that strips these protections from the alternative
  180. media and others she deems as not being �real reporters.�
  181.  
  182. http://watchdog.org/100682/feinstein-wants-to-limit-who-can-be-a-journalist/
  183.  
  184.  The most recent congressional threat to the free press
  185. in the United States comes from California Democrat U.S.
  186. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
  187.  
  188.  In a proposed amendment to a media shield law being
  189. considered by Congress, Feinstein writes that only paid
  190. journalists should be given protections from prosecution
  191. for what they say or write.  The language in her proposal
  192. is raising concerns from First Amendment advocates because
  193. it seems to leave out bloggers and other nontraditional
  194. forms of journalism that have proliferated in recent years
  195. thanks to the Internet.
  196.  
  197.  �It rubs me the wrong way that the government thinks it
  198. should be in the business of determining who should be
  199. considered a journalist,� said Ken Bunting, executive
  200. director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition
  201. at the Missouri School of Journalism.
  202.  
  203.  But on the other hand, Bunting said, there is a great need
  204. for federal shield law in light of recent attempts by the
  205. U.S. Justice Department to force journalists to give up
  206. information about confidential sources.
  207.  
  208.  The difficulty with writing any such law � this is the
  209. third time Congress has attempted to craft a federal shield
  210. law � is that any such law would have to set standards for
  211. who counts as a journalist or what qualifies as an �act of
  212. journalism.�
  213.  
  214.  There are shield laws on the books in 40 states, but they
  215. do not apply in federal court.  The First Amendment of the
  216. U.S Constitution promises that the right to a free press
  217. �shall not be infringed.�
  218.  
  219.  The proposed federal shield law would protect journalists
  220. from having to comply with subpoenas or court orders forcing
  221. them to reveal sources and other confidential information.
  222. The important question, of course, is how to determine that
  223. the shield law applies to one person and not another.
  224.  
  225. In other words, how do you determine someone is a journalist?
  226.  
  227.  Feinstein, chairwoman of the powerful Senate Intelligence
  228. Committee (and a staunch defender of the government�s right
  229. to spy on anyone at any time), does not want to see a shield
  230. law that would protect employees of WikiLeaks and other
  231. leak-driven news organizations.
  232.  
  233.  At a congressional hearing on the matter last week, Feinstein
  234. said shield laws should only apply to �real reporters.�
  235.  
  236. ---------------------------------------------------------
  237.  
  238. http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/lindsey-graham-isn-t-sure-if-bloggers-deserve-first-amendment-protection-20130605
  239.  
  240.  Whether bloggers count as journalists has mostly been a
  241. matter of esoterics for reporter types. But as Congress weighs
  242. a media shield law in response to the Associated Press/Justice
  243. Department subpoena scandal, the question is gaining an urgency
  244. that lawmakers are finding hard to ignore as they turn to
  245. writing the bill.
  246.  
  247.  Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
  248. took on the issue�and stumbled.
  249.  
  250.  �Who is a journalist is a question we need to ask ourselves,�
  251. he said. �Is any blogger out there saying anything � do they
  252. deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of
  253. our times.� ... ...
  254.  
  255. http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/lindsey-graham-on-tracking-down-snowden-censoring-postal-mail-and-donating-to-ron-paul-60902/
  256.  
  257.  Sen.Lindsey Graham (R-SC), as usual, has been a source
  258. of all sorts of imaginable quotes on national security,
  259. surveillance and private political donations in recent days.
  260.  
  261.  Not only does the senior Senator from South Carolina
  262. question whether bloggers deserve first amendment protections
  263. and is �glad� the NSA is snooping in phone records, Graham
  264. says snail mail could be targeted if necessary.
  265.  
  266.  In a Yahoo News report Tuesday, Graham said he would
  267. censor mail like it was during WWII, In World War II, the
  268. mentality of the public was that our whole way of life was
  269. at risk, we�re all in. We censored the mail. When you wrote
  270. a letter overseas, it got censored. When a letter was written
  271. back from the battlefield to home, they looked at what was
  272. in the letter to make sure they were not tipping off the
  273. enemy,� Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services
  274. Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill. �If I thought
  275. censoring the mail was necessary, I would suggest it, but
  276. I don�t think it is.�
  277.  
  278.  Concerning �whistleblower� Edward Snowden, Sen. Graham
  279. tweeted Monday after calling him a felon, �I hope we follow
  280. Mr. Snowden to the ends of the earth to bring him to justice.�
  281.  
  282. FLASHBACK ; Lindsey Graham Advocated Killing First Amendment
  283.  
  284. http://www.infowars.com/lindsey-graham-advocates-killing-first-amendment/
  285.  
  286.  In response to the idiotic and pointless burning of the
  287. Koran by a Florida pastor and the deadly riots that followed
  288. in Afghanistan, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has
  289. proposed limiting the First Amendment. ... ...
  290.  
  291. ---------------------------------------------------------
  292.  
  293. http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/free-flow-of-information-act-targets.html
  294.  
  295.  The fact that the US Senate is now defining what a journalist
  296. actually is sets a dangerous precedent threatening the present
  297. marketplace of ideas that in recent history has been greatly
  298. expanded by the internet.
  299.  
  300.  According to the text of an amendment sponsored by Senators
  301. Diane Feinstein and Dick Durbin to the proposed �Free Flow of
  302. Information Act� that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee
  303. on September 12, only salaried journalists will be given the
  304. free press protections guaranteed to all US citizens by the
  305. Constitution.
  306.  
  307.  Under such a law presumably only the news reporters and
  308. analysts employed by moderate-to-substantial revenue-generating
  309. news entities are regarded as �legitimate� journalists. This is
  310. because the Feinstein-Durbin amendment�s wording is especially
  311. vague on exactly what type of news organization the writer
  312. needs to be affiliated with to be able to comment and report
  313. freely. ... ...
  314.  
  315.  If such legislation achieves passage free speech will be
  316. diminished as thousands of independent journalists conducting
  317. valid research into a variety of malfeasance and corruption by
  318. major institutions may be open to government subpoenas and
  319. legal action by those they investigate and report on. Further,
  320. such a law paves the way for Congress to formally license
  321. journalists, which is close to happening in the United Kingdom
  322. - a perfect example posted below ;
  323.  
  324. http://www.infowars.com/uk-threatened-to-shut-down-guardian-for-printing-snowden-leaks/
  325.  
  326. ---------------------------------------------------------
  327.  
  328. http://www.toonaripost.com/2013/09/us-news/federal-shield-law-new-double-standard-free-speech/
  329.  
  330.  Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) co-sponsored the bill with
  331. South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham to bring to the
  332. federal government protective measures for eminent journalists.
  333.  
  334.  Only the state of Wyoming lacks both the legislative and
  335. judicial precedents to offer protection to journalists
  336. unwilling to publically testify to confidential sources.
  337.  
  338.  The 1972 case of Branzburg v. Hayes caused the Supreme Court
  339. to find in a five to four decision that journalists did not
  340. hold the Constitutional Right to keep confidential information
  341. from the court simply because it was a sound business practice.
  342.  
  343.  It was the President who called on Senator Schumer to
  344. reintroduce a failed 2009 bill while instructing the Justice
  345. Department to develop guidelines to protect journalists
  346. according to Reuters.
  347.  
  348.  An Administration presiding over the Court Martial of
  349. Bradley Manning while instituting the Espionage Act more
  350. than any other Executive in history just lost a very public
  351. intelligence war for the rights to Independent Contracted
  352. Spy Edward J. Snowden after he fled to the foreign media
  353. for aid to play David against America�s Military Industrial
  354. Goliath. More oversight was needed.
  355.  
  356.  So perhaps the Free Flow of Information Act should not be
  357. universally seen as a Shield Law as media companies like
  358. the publisher of the Wall Street Business Journal have voiced.
  359.  
  360.  Democrats Dick Durbin (IL) and Diane Feinstein (CA) made
  361. sure that National Security and law enforcement interests
  362. may always pry open a local journalist. In addition, primary
  363. source aggregates that violate governmental classification
  364. protocols like WikiLeaks would not protected by the law.
  365.  
  366.  The law is not to protect cut-and-paste journalism or
  367. voracious blogging, but independent contractors working
  368. for a media company.
  369.  
  370.  Drudge Report�s Matt Drudge took to Twitter Friday to bash
  371. Feinstein as a Fascist for differentiating between an,
  372. �under-aged,� blogger and reputed professional working
  373. for a masthead.
  374.  
  375.  Assuming that the bill gets out of the Senate, it may do
  376. so for all the wrong reasons. Senators may find themselves
  377. drawn to the bill for its censorship, grouping Information
  378. Distributors into the prosecutable and legitimate.
  379.  
  380.  Lord knows that might save further Administration embarrassment
  381. if the next Edward J. Snowden knew that there were federally
  382. backed Shield Laws to help him tell is stories of corruption
  383. and abuse. ... ...
  384.  
  385.  Under the Federal Shield Law, a suspected violation of the
  386. Espionage Act is still enough to begin a Federal search of
  387. any local journalist who harbors the illegal intent to publish
  388. secrets. (So the next Edward J. Snowden would not necessarily
  389. be protected despite his position as Free Lancing Contractor.)
  390.  
  391.  DOJ will report yearly the number of times it gained search
  392. warrants and subpoenas of journalists.
  393.  
  394.  Under new guidelines, Justice Department officials would grant
  395. 45 days to journalists to reveal sources and may grant one
  396. extension of 45 days; however, there will be no notice that
  397. reporter�s material was subpoenaed if it harms an investigation.
  398.  
  399.  A DOJ Director of Public Affairs & Privacy / Civil Liberties
  400. Officer will review media requests without any veto power to
  401. shield journalists at all.
  402.  
  403.  A News Media Group of journalists will be established to
  404. continue a dialogue established by the founding Administration
  405. in what has already been dubbed the Ministry of Truth as a
  406. representation the Administration�s Bully Pulpit.
  407.  
  408.  Writers would lose all privileges in cases mitigating death,
  409. kidnapping and bodily harm.
  410.  
  411.  In cases of crime, writers could only withhold information
  412. if the crime was leaking but only for so long.
  413.  
  414.  Senator John Coryn of Texas, one of five Republicans against
  415. the bill, stated, �A new law is not what we need.�
  416.  
  417. ---------------------------------------------------------
  418.  
  419. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/26/Exclusive-Cornyn-Rips-Schumer-s-Media-Shield-Law
  420.  
  421.  The number two Republican in the Senate is lambasting a media
  422. �shield law� proposed by New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer,
  423. potentially imperiling its shot at passage.
  424.  
  425.  �This is a bad idea and one whose time has not come,� Sen.
  426. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate minority whip, told Breitbart
  427. News in an exclusive interview. �Believe me, we will not be
  428. rolled over.�
  429.  
  430.  Schumer�s �Free Flow of Information Act� passed the Senate
  431. Judiciary Committee in September, and he recently said he
  432. already has the 60 votes needed to pass the bill on the floor.
  433. �We�ll get a few more Republicans, not many more, but we have
  434. the 60 votes,� Schumer told reporters in New York last week.
  435.  
  436. He's bluffing, Cornyn retorts.
  437.  
  438.  �If he had the votes to pass it, it already would have been
  439. passed,� Cornyn says, adding, �This isn�t about passing legislation,
  440. this is about distracting the public�s attention and changing the
  441. subject from the failed policies of this administration. I think
  442. you could put this in that same category.�
  443.  
  444.  Schumer's proposal would exempt a �covered journalist� from
  445. subpoenas and other legal requirements to expose their confidential
  446. sources in leak investigations and other areas. Other lawmakers
  447. have proposed similar ideas in the past, but the effort gained
  448. new momentum after a series of revelations about controversial
  449. tactics the Justice Department was using to target journalists.
  450.  
  451.  For instance, the Department of Justice secretly monitored Fox
  452. News reporter James Rosen in the course of a leak investigation,
  453. even claiming in a court filing he was a subject of investigation
  454. himself. In another instance, the government had secretly monitored
  455. numerous phone lines used by the Associated Press, including one
  456. in the U.S. Capitol.
  457.  
  458.  Cornyn says Schumer's proposal is fatally flawed and may be an
  459. unworkable idea altogether.
  460.  
  461.  �They want to pick and choose which journalists are covered,�
  462. the Texan Republican told Breitbart News. �In other words, if
  463. you�re a blogger they might not cover you, but if you work for
  464. the New York Times they might. Given the changes in the way we
  465. get information and the way we consume news, that really smacks
  466. to me in essence of government licensing who�s an official
  467. �journalist� for the purposes of a shield law and who�s not.
  468. If there is one thing I can glean from the First Amendment,
  469. it is that government should not be in the business of licensing
  470. the news media.�
  471.  
  472.  In practice, defining who is considered a �journalist� and
  473. protected under the law from having to disclose confidential
  474. sources is a thorny legal problem. On the one hand, the law�s
  475. drafters don�t want to provide blanket immunity to everyone.
  476. But anointing a government-approved class of scribes cuts against
  477. the nature of journalism, which almost by definition is frequently
  478. critical of the government.
  479.  
  480.  �It�s totally inconsistent with the notion of a free press and
  481. the First Amendment,� Cornyn said.
  482.  
  483.  His �fundamental problem� with the bill, though, is that it
  484. would exempt journalists from being subpoenaed to testify before
  485. a grand jury if they witness a crime.
  486.  
  487.  �For example, if you�ve witnessed a crime taking place, you or
  488. I would both have to respond to a grand jury subpoena and come
  489. to testify to what we�ve seen. This idea of saying you could
  490. have information about a crime and you are immunized to having
  491. to partake in a basic act of American citizenship strikes me as
  492. pretty odd to say the least,� he says.
  493.  
  494.  Cornyn, who just breezed past a primary challenge from Rep.
  495. Steve Stockman, notes it�s more than a bit ironic that Senate
  496. Democrats are championing the bill while their party's president
  497. wreaks havoc on press freedoms.
  498.  
  499.  Cornyn believes the bill�s timing � and the administration�s
  500. backing of it � appears to be aimed at alleviating criticism
  501. of the Justice Department�s secret attainment of Associated
  502. Press phone conversations and the administration�s similar
  503. actions against Fox News�s James Rosen, among other media
  504. targeting.
  505.  
  506.  �You remember when this was recently resurrected?� Cornyn
  507. asks. �It was essentially an attempt to deflect... from the
  508. Department of Justice and this administration... the criticism
  509. they were taking [from] James Rosen and other traditional
  510. journalists. So, I really question the timing of all of this.�
  511.  
  512.  Finally, Cornyn raises concerns about the proposal's champion
  513. � Schumer.
  514.  
  515.  The mere fact that Schumer is the one pushing this bill is
  516. something that should send alarm bells off throughout the
  517. Congress, Cornyn says.
  518.  
  519.  �My antennae are always very sensitive whenever he is on the
  520. march,� he says, noting the New York Democrat openly declared
  521. war on the Tea Party in a Center for American Progress speech
  522. earlier this year.
  523.  
  524.  Cornyn says that the bill would very likely exclude bloggers
  525. and would definitely exclude citizen journalists and other new
  526. media practitioners, those who may practice journalism but not
  527. in the employ of a major newspaper or television network, from
  528. being government-defined �journalists.� As such, it could end
  529. up hurting conservatives because many of the most widely-read
  530. new media figures are on the right.
  531.  
  532.  �Well, you remember, a few years ago there was a discussion
  533. about the Fairness Doctrine, and whether they would go after
  534. talk radio,� Cornyn says.
  535.  
  536.  �Talk radio, I think, the left feels as a threat. Now, you know,
  537. you start to put the dots together and the FCC�s recent discussion
  538. about placing monitors in newsrooms, you begin to see that this
  539. administration wants to control the information that people get
  540. and particularly any information that might be critical of them
  541. � which is, as you pointed out in the first instance... the
  542. function of a free press: to give people unbiased and factual
  543. information they can use to make their own decisions, not to
  544. collaborate with government in squashing speech that people
  545. find unfavorable,� he adds.
  546.  
  547.  Cornyn says he will �absolutely� be whipping against the bill
  548. and doubts the Republican-controlled House would pass it anyway.
  549.  
  550. ---------------------------------------------------------
  551.  
  552. Don�t be duped - it�s a trojan horse for censorship.
  553.  
  554. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/s987-113/show
  555.  
  556. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s987/text

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