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by onetwotree 3605 days ago
Here's a real gem, from an FTC official:

> There’s a fine line between shutting down the Internet and policing it

Straight out of a lobbyists mouth, I'd imagine. It has the classic "true, but only in certain contexts" thing going on - sure, it's a great argument against, say, SOPA, but as an argument against a simple legal requirement that big internet players do their part to reign obviously malicious advertising, it's pretty bogus.