Is a broadcast license revocation a form of censorship? (Hint: No, it's not.)
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Is a broadcast license revocation a form of censorship? (Hint: No, it's not.)
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#2Some really orwellian stuff here. What amazes me is that people really believe this bullshit and don't even show a hint of shame.
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#3Is a broadcast license revocation a form of censorship? Someone asked my co-author Steve Macek that question on Facebook, and Steve's response is worth quoting at length:
It is not censorship to revoke Fox's TV licenses for failure to live up to the public interest requirements the FCC expects of broadcasters.
So, this proposed government regulation of speech isn’t censorship because some guy on Facebook, that I’ve never heard of, personally doesn’t like Fox.
Denying a license is exactly the sort of thing a Roman Censor would have done.
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#5Some really orwellian stuff here. What amazes me is that people really believe this bullshit and don't even show a hint of shame.
It's all OK if you frame it as a "privelage" the government is gracious enough to bestow.. then of course it's not censorship!
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#6Editorialization in the title here.
Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
> Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information
Intent doesn’t matter to the definition of removal of information. I’m sure one could find a definition that includes it in its justification clause but that doesn’t change the operative part where a piece of information is removed from discovery, publication, or broadcast.
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#7The FCC is a revolving door of telecom and big law lobbyists - they serve the likes of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc. They are not to be trusted. If a broadcast license can be revoked for questioning an election, what's next? Saying there are two sexes, broadcasting tv programs or content that provide alternative takes on historical events? Similar to how the Supreme Court curtailed EPA authority to issue power plant regulations under the Clean Air Act, the same should be done in regards to the Congress in the Communications Act of 1934. Federal agencies, esp. ones that regulate 'speech' and communications, should be defunded and hacked to pieces.
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#8Some really orwellian stuff here. What amazes me is that people really believe this bullshit and don't even show a hint of shame.
It's all OK if you frame it as a "privelage" the government is gracious enough to bestow.. then of course it's not censorship!
This also happened, I’m forgetting the court case, where the government revoked a driver’s license for reasons other than the driving.
They argued, well, it’s a “privilege.” The court, thankfully, shredded them and said that driving is basically a right that anyone may have access to if they meet the same standards set for public safety.
So, at least from that court’s view, it’s a “privilege” that people have an equal right to try to obtain and hold. Or something to that effect.
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#9I truly do not understand how people have forgotten that in a democracy, any powers you give yourself - any lines you cross or precedences you break - are tools that your political enemies will use against you when they return to power, and in a democracy they will always return to power eventually.
Both sides are guilty of the descent into political total war and but as citizens we need to reject this kind of behavior.
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#10Was this written by a middle schooler? yikes