"Deprogramming" the Trump cult(www.salon.com)

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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world

5 points

11 months ago

There’s no need to shut them down:

“The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. In 1987, the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

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TechyDad@lemmy.world

16 points

11 months ago

The problem, even if we reinstated this, is that this applied to broadcast only. This wouldn’t apply to cable channels. Neither would it apply to Internet groups. Both of those would still be free to spout full blown lies and conspiracy theories dressed up as “news.”

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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world

5 points

11 months ago

It would definitely need updating to include cable, things have changed a lot since 1987. As for the internet, I don’t see how that could be enforced other than to classify sites as publishers and make them liable for the content they host.

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grue@lemmy.world

5 points

11 months ago

The entire legal basis for it was the notion that the FCC was entitled to regulate the radio spectrum because it’s a scarce resource. The FCC has no authority to regulate cable or the Internet.

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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world

4 points

11 months ago

The FCC has no authority to regulate cable or the Internet.

“The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission

It’s true that the FCC doesn’t regulate internet content, that’s why classifying sites as publishers would be useful. We would have the same legal tools that apply to newspapers.

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lolcatnip@reddthat.com

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11 months ago

Has their ability to regulate communication that doesn’t involve any public resources ever been tested in court?

You could easily argue that things like ISPs require content-neutral regulations, but for regulating content there needs to be a pretty damn solid justification for why the First Amendment can’t apply as written. For public airways the bandwidth is limited enough that allowing some speech necessarily comes at the expense of other speech, but that justification is very shaky for cable and satellite TV, and it completely falls apart for internet services. It would be comparable to the federal government trying to regulate the content of private correspondence through the postal service.

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