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Why do you think the Fairness Doctrine wouldn't have been applied to cable/internet (eventually)? TBH, I think the loss of Fairness Doctrine, Citizens United d
by r00fus 4y ago
Why do you think the Fairness Doctrine wouldn't have been applied to cable/internet (eventually)?
TBH, I think the loss of Fairness Doctrine, Citizens United decision, etc are all skirting the real issue: the concept that corporations are people. Not enshrined in law, but from old Supreme Court decision in 1886.
Make corporations non-people (or limit their personhood aggressively) and you can actually punish them effectively without a corporate death penalty which is never used.
- CamperBob2 4y agoThe ability of the FCC to exercise enforcement power over broadcast content, seemingly in defiance of the First Amendment, is a tradeoff that OTA broadcasters have to accept in exchange for their station licenses. In exchange for being granted a legally-enforced monopoly over a given frequency for a given geographical area, they agree to carry programming that's considered to be in the public interest, and to adhere to strict content regulations. Cable networks and websites don't require these monopoly privileges, so they aren't, and shouldn't be, required to adhere to broadcast content standards.