Comment: Another Gay picked by Obama to implement government control over free speech, including Blogsphere. Now, that just ain't gonna happen. You thought you pissed off Gun lovers in trying to change that amendment and take their Guns (which you are going to try again), and now you try taking free speech from Bloggers? It wouldn't be pretty.

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period.

The revelations about Cass Sunstein, Obama's friend from the University of Chicago Law School and nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, come in a new book by Brad O'Leary, "Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech." OIRA will oversee regulation throughout the U.S. government.

Sunstein also has argued in his prolific literary works that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing.

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