The same regulations and rules would apply to everybody broadcasting or using a service like cable TV where options are limited. The internet is the public square these days and is as free as the press, more so really. It's who the social media algorithms promote there that counts, for example there are thousands of hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, a staggering amount, but they determine what gets seen, it's there, but not promoted.
Government censorship should be limited. End of story. Also, as you say, the amount of lies and libel out there is almost endless. I'd rather my government put resources into helping people. Maybe in Canada there is enthusiasm for the government to do what you say. Not so much in the US.
I'm not alone in holding these opinions and all laws must be constitutional, many democrats are echoing this and don't like the fact that foxnews gives the republicans billions in free advertising and outright propaganda. They are also echoing Russian disinformation and spreading it which is not making them friends in some quarters.
Make it easier for injured parties to sue them and take away their profits. Problem solved.
Then there is Elon's lament...
Tell me about it Elon, I don't like the drone regulations, but I know why they must be implemented, the war in Ukraine proves that!
I think a variety of solutions will be employed, provided the democrats win a useful majority and I must say the republicans are helping with that quite a bit. Changes to civil law might be among the changes along with tightened regulations, or just enforcing some of the ones that were in the past. Broadcasters under license should be a positive social force and serve their clients, not abuse them with lies that can and do harm them.
That’s a big ask, even if it is the better way. First we have to find a way to break the near-monopoly on farm-teaming legislators and judges exercised by the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation and such. If there are liberal/democratic counterforces to those pirates, I’m unaware of them. If it’s me, (shrug).
To me, it's a much smaller ask than getting the government to regulate speech.
The FCC de facto regulated speech via licensing of media outlets. While I do not want to engage the slippery slope toward censorship, I see a need for a less ponderous mechanism than civil suits against entrenched oligarchs for neutralizing harmful liars such as q and anti-public-health.
Murdoch & Trump have done more damage/harm to this country than anything/anyone else had accomplished since it's founding.
I'm Irish and have been here for 29 years, only going back once in awhile to regain some sort of sanity, as I've found this place can drain one's soul.
which is which?
Find thee a good Jewish deli and eat a corned beef on rye constructed around three inches of fine-sliced pinkness. Get the brown mustard. Instant soul restorer.
Actually I know this bar/restaurant that makes this pastrami sandwich on Jewish rye bread with caraway seeds of course, that is outstanding.
Good point
I don’t groove on ambers or dark beers in general. (Similarly I find coffee repellent.) But a nice pale bitter or ideally an Imperial Pilsner and now we’re talkin!
Does that mean you don't like Guinness?
k bye
Parting is such sweet sorrow
The easy path has its own risks. The path that uses government censorship has to be walled off and people need to find another way. End of story. If Trump had taken office in 2016 with the ability to enforce censorship he would have shut down all ability to discuss anything he didn't approve of. It's hard to imagine the US doing worse than we did during the Covid pandemic. But Trump had the power to quash any discussion of masks or vaccines or how stupid an idea it is to rely on hydroxyquinone as a cure or even count and report how many people were dying due to Covid, it would have been worse and Trump did try to do that.The FCC de facto regulated speech via licensing of media outlets. While I do not want to engage the slippery slope toward censorship, I see a need for a less ponderous mechanism than civil suits against entrenched oligarchs for neutralizing harmful liars such as q and anti-public-health.
I’ll be nibbling whiffy cheese and watching the Smartmatic lawsuit with baited breath. They probably hurt themselves with the below, however.
Smartmatic implicated in alleged bribery scheme involving top Filipino election official | CNN Business
Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing Fox News and former President Donald Trump’s top allies over their false claims that its machines rigged the 2020 election, was implicated in an alleged bribery scheme involving the former top election official in the Philippines, according to...amp.cnn.com