punishing news sources for being funded by hostile governments It doesn't matter whether the government is "hostile" or not. Every country, the U.S. included,

punishing news sources for being funded by hostile governments It doesn't matter whether the government is "hostile" or not. Every country, the U.S. included, is friendly with some pretty repressive regimes. Or, to look at it from an international perspective, are you saying Iranians should trust Syrian state media more than the BBC because Syria is friendlier to Iran than Great Britain is?