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>Although it’s described as voluntary, Carr said broadcasters can meet their public interest obligations by taking the pledge. This is notable because Carr has
by tokai 8mo ago
>Although it’s described as voluntary, Carr said broadcasters can meet their public interest obligations by taking the pledge. This is notable because Carr has repeatedly threatened to punish broadcast stations for violating the public interest standard.
But apparently Europe are the ones with freedom of speech issues.
- parineum 8mo agoTwo things can be true
- erxam 8mo agoFreedom of speech: pro-US propaganda Lack of freedom of speech: anything else
- jjtwixman 8mo agoPretty much. Americans want to export their fascist ideology to Europe under the guise of "freedom of speech". They need to get their own house in order first, frankly.
- za3faran 8mo agoNot just to Europe, we've seen what they did to Western Asia "Middle East" over the past decades under the guise of "freedom".
- erxam 8mo agoThe whole world, frankly. The mere concept of "freedom of speech" is a Trojan horse for far-right movements to gain ground amongst the peoples of the world. We fucked up from the very moment we let agitators spread their poison around without any sort of punishment. Now the rot is widespread enough that they're making their moves.
- wakawaka28 8mo ago[flagged]
- mindslight 8mo agoI took the comment as specifically referring to the fascist ideology being pushed by the current US administration.
- wakawaka28 8mo agoThere is no such ideology being pushed by the current administration. Both of you are wrong if you think that is happening.
- mindslight 8mo agobruh, we're literally in a thread about the FCC pressuring broadcasters to air nationalistic content.
- wakawaka28 8mo agoNationalistic content is not fascist. They already air content of national interest such as election debates and presidential speeches.
- mindslight 8mo ago"Nationalistic" is not a synonym for "national interest". And the point was not just that its nationalistic content, but rather that broadcasters are being pressured to air it.
- wakawaka28 8mo agoI'm not sure who you expect to push for airing essentially patriotic ads and content, besides the government. It is not necessarily nefarious. We need to have some modicum of civic mindedness and that needs to come from somewhere. The government itself is at least usually not partisan when it comes to generic campaigns like this.
- Kapura 8mo agoYou are limited to a realitwhere words have consistent meaning. the fascists and republicans have no such limitation, which gives them a lot of power if you think you can debate them with logic.
- input_sh 8mo agoI can't tell if this is intentional or not, but you're pretty much paraphrasing a famous Jean-Paul Sartre's WW2-era quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-...
- orwin 8mo agoWow, i didn't know that. Isn't it an indictment for every edgelord?