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The fairness doctrine doesn't exist anymore. It went away when it was decided it wasn't a good thing and went against free speech. Compelled speech or forced s
by ineedasername 6y ago
The fairness doctrine doesn't exist anymore. It went away when it was decided it wasn't a good thing and went against free speech.
Compelled speech or forced speech is not free speech.
- leereeves 6y agoThe Fairness Doctrine wasn't ruled unconstitional, it ended because the FCC chose to end it, which does not establish a legal precedent. A similar rule, the equal-time rule, still exists. Arguments that it violates the First Amendment have never worked in court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
- ineedasername 6y agoThe FCC chose to end it for the reasons I mentioned. The equal time rule has so many exceptions that it might as well not exist. Also, to my knowledge, it has not been extensively reviewed by the Supreme Court on constitutionality grounds, probably because of those exceptions that mean there's never really a case to fight over. The one case I could find wasn't fighting the rule itself, but rather it's interpretation.