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> "Neener neener neener" isn't a valid legal theory. Works surprisingly (depressingly) well when there’s no pushback. We’re not controlling news media, we’re j
by mananaysiempre 6mo ago
> "Neener neener neener" isn't a valid legal theory.
Works surprisingly (depressingly) well when there’s no pushback. We’re not controlling news media, we’re just issuing broadcast licenses. It’s not a movie and videogame censor, it’s just a state agency for mandatory age ratings. (In at least one Western country that was literally a rebrand.) Or closer to TFA’s locale, we’re not regulating commercial activity within a single state, we’re just controlling its impact on the interstate market. (Don’t worry, it’s all for a good cause, child labor is bad after all.)
- cucumber3732842 6mo ago>We’re not controlling news media, we’re just issuing broadcast licenses See also: "your 4th/5th/8th amendment rights aren't being violated because this is an administrative matter not a civil one" >Don’t worry, it’s all for a good cause, child labor is bad after all.) On an unrelated not the people who hold up the banning of child labor as some good thing really peeve me because it's ignorant of history. Child labor went away because industrialization made a man with a machine more valuable than a child with or without a machine. Then once child labor was mostly gone the government went back and banned it in the few places it hung on. Textbook low impact pandering. Not any sort of accomplishment or hard fought thing. And it worked, because they're still crediting the government with it over a century later.