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White House proposal: FCC and FTC would police alleged social media censorship
- intopieces 7y agoThis won’t survive a Supreme Court challenge. Red Lion Broadcasting Co v. FCC (1969) was upheld primarily because airwaves were limited. The Internet is not limited, so this revival of the “fairness doctrine” has no foundation.
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- rayiner 7y agoI really didn’t expect folks opposing Citizens United to get their shouts of “corporations don’t have free speech rights” thrown back in their face quite so quickly.
- euroclydon 7y agoWe must be close to a proposal for a publicly owned social network.
- fooey 7y agoThis whole thing is just red meat for his base to address a problem that doesn't exist. The social bigs aren't censoring political views, they're censoring violent hate speech. The republican party voluntarily claiming violent hate speech as their political ideology is bizarre.
- ldoughty 7y agoShould be okay, FCC Republicans say your ISP can regulate what they send you on the grounds of free speech, what's the difference with Facebook? You can at least pick an alternate social media platform. Most Americans don't have that option with ISPs