Enviro-Lawyer Wants Less Internet Speech

A lawyer by the name of Dusty Horwitt is suggesting that government tax all but the most deep pocketed Internet content providers because "The information avalanche coming from all sides -- the Internet, PDAs, hundreds of television channels -- is burying us in extraneous data that prevent important facts and knowledge from reaching a broad audience" and "It's possible that over time, an energy tax, by making some computers, Web sites, blogs and perhaps cable TV channels too costly to maintain, could reduce the supply of information."

In other words, people aren't consuming the information Mr. Horwitt thinks they should, so he wants to use the tax code to limit the amount of information available. And he uses one ridiculous rationale after another to desperately make his case.

Mr. Horwitt's interest in this crackpot idea goes beyond his obvious fascistic streak and plain nuttiness. He's an environmental attorney for The Environmental Working Group; a radical organization that exists to whip up public fear and emotion based on Pseudo-Science that is fed to friendly (Leftist) journalists. The froth created is then used by EWG's trial lawyer buddies to sue businesses already reeling from fighting in a tainted court of public opinion.

But now there's a problem. The Internet allows people to exercise their critical thinking skills and not just swallow the biased reporting coming from Horwitt's MSM buddies. The public today has the ability to give his BS the smell test and he wants the government to tax competing views out of existence. The fact that Horwitt"s obvious conflict of interest isn't disclosed is the strongest argument against his thesis.

In short, the parasitical trial lawyers and their Eco-Marxist clients are getting as frustrated as the Democrat Party is with all this pesky free speech stuff. So now we have a plan to impose a back door Fairness Doctrine on the Internet. Their ideas can't compete in the marketplace, so they'll just destroy the market.

One of Horwitt's complaints: "To achieve their goals, political movements need to reach and influence tens of millions of citizens. Despite conventional thinking that the Internet helps spread information, such reach is actually impossible online."

It would be nice if Mr. Horwitt's eltist plan does go viral and he gets plenty of feedback from all the fools who aren't reading his approved information.