Tony, our major disagreement seems to be that you think that broadcast TV should be without standards or enforcement.
I disagree.
Twitter isn't governed by the FCC. It isn't broadcast over the airwaves.
A government monopoly is granted by broadcast licences, and that comes with conditions.
The enforcement of those conditions has been entirely absent for a long time. Lying over the airwaves, radio or TV should have consequences. This was as clear-cut as it gets.
This isn't Twitter. As unethical as that was, I don't think it was strictly prohibited by federal law.
Your argument is that the director of the FCC threatened to enforce the law? Well fuck him. How dare he do his job, amIrite?
This isn't censorship. If it was there would be actual consequences for discussing this on the Internet, which there are not.
The The left leaning media was going to try to spin this with a lie no matter what happened. They are mobilizing their useful idiots to try to neutralize any kind of enforcement.
The sick, sad joke is that private broadcast companies are reflecting public opinion and preemptively canceling the airing of this shitty, unpopular show, not the US government.
This isn't censorship. It would be fucking great if the FCC actually did it's fucking job and enforced the law. Do it impartially.
The lie that this is politically motivated censorship will die off, because it will lose steam or stop working. This is just like Russia Collision or any other lie that was a useful lever to pull.
If I were Trump I'd push to have laws passed to break up media ownership, but I am not.
It is fucking hilarious that you think that enforcing a very reasonable law is mustach twirling evil. How unexpected.
Tony, our major disagreement seems to be that you think that broadcast TV should be without standards or enforcement.
No, this is an 'is' and not an 'ought'. By the way, your position on the 'ought' changed about 8 months ago.
This isn't Twitter. As unethical as that was, I don't think it was strictly prohibited by federal law.
Of course it was. Not by criminal law, unfortunately, but it's an illegal government action based on the highest law.
This isn't censorship. If it was there would be actual consequences for discussing this on the Internet, which there are not.
Do you think something cannot be censorship unless there are consequences for discussing it on the internet? As long as you don't touch the internet (yet), it's not censorship? Of course, people like Don Bacon and other GOP Congressmen want to touch the internet as well...
The sick, sad joke is that private broadcast companies are reflecting public opinion and preemptively canceling the airing of this shitty, unpopular show, not the US government.
If that's the case, why would you even need to talk like a mob boss like the FCC guy? Why would you give your opponents ammunition to spin it as censorship and bring back an extremely unpopular, unfunny guy back, now as a martyr of censorship?
This isn't censorship. It would be fucking great if the FCC actually did it's fucking job and enforced the law. Do it impartially.
Who do you trust with the power to censor? You talk like Donald Trump is president for the rest of eternity.
If I were Trump I'd push to have laws passed to break up media ownership, but I am not.
That's actually great. It's not targeting any speech, and it would be an overall improvement that everyone can agree with. Or Democrats would have to admit that they love concentrations of power.
It is fucking hilarious that you think that enforcing a very reasonable law is mustach twirling evil. How unexpected.
I mean, you're not even willing to admit that it's extremely STUPID, the way they went about doing it.
Tony, our major disagreement seems to be that you think that broadcast TV should be without standards or enforcement.
I disagree.
Twitter isn't governed by the FCC. It isn't broadcast over the airwaves.
A government monopoly is granted by broadcast licences, and that comes with conditions.
The enforcement of those conditions has been entirely absent for a long time. Lying over the airwaves, radio or TV should have consequences. This was as clear-cut as it gets.
This isn't Twitter. As unethical as that was, I don't think it was strictly prohibited by federal law.
Your argument is that the director of the FCC threatened to enforce the law? Well fuck him. How dare he do his job, amIrite?
This isn't censorship. If it was there would be actual consequences for discussing this on the Internet, which there are not.
The The left leaning media was going to try to spin this with a lie no matter what happened. They are mobilizing their useful idiots to try to neutralize any kind of enforcement.
The sick, sad joke is that private broadcast companies are reflecting public opinion and preemptively canceling the airing of this shitty, unpopular show, not the US government.
This isn't censorship. It would be fucking great if the FCC actually did it's fucking job and enforced the law. Do it impartially.
The lie that this is politically motivated censorship will die off, because it will lose steam or stop working. This is just like Russia Collision or any other lie that was a useful lever to pull.
If I were Trump I'd push to have laws passed to break up media ownership, but I am not.
It is fucking hilarious that you think that enforcing a very reasonable law is mustach twirling evil. How unexpected.
No, this is an 'is' and not an 'ought'. By the way, your position on the 'ought' changed about 8 months ago.
Of course it was. Not by criminal law, unfortunately, but it's an illegal government action based on the highest law.
Do you think something cannot be censorship unless there are consequences for discussing it on the internet? As long as you don't touch the internet (yet), it's not censorship? Of course, people like Don Bacon and other GOP Congressmen want to touch the internet as well...
If that's the case, why would you even need to talk like a mob boss like the FCC guy? Why would you give your opponents ammunition to spin it as censorship and bring back an extremely unpopular, unfunny guy back, now as a martyr of censorship?
Who do you trust with the power to censor? You talk like Donald Trump is president for the rest of eternity.
That's actually great. It's not targeting any speech, and it would be an overall improvement that everyone can agree with. Or Democrats would have to admit that they love concentrations of power.
I mean, you're not even willing to admit that it's extremely STUPID, the way they went about doing it.
https://youtu.be/Aoam4Vtt3sw
Watch this.
Midnight' s Edge have been a reliable scooper for years.
This is what actually happened.
If you want to go on and believe every lie on TV, then knock yourself out, but you are better than that. Even if I am the only one who thinks so.
I don't even watch TV. Who is talking about that, let alone believing anything on it? Why are you arguing only against strawmen?
You will talk abouit anything except how pants off retarded it is to talk like a mob boss like the FCC guy did.