Aug 12 2008
Hail the Fairness Doctrine and Pass the Borscht, Comrades
FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content
There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content policy.”FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. McDowell spoke about a recent FCC vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain Internet practices - expanding the federal agency’s oversight of Internet networks.
“Then, whoever is in charge of government is going to determine what is fair, under a so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine,’ which won’t be called that - it’ll be called something else,” McDowell said. “So, will Web sites, will bloggers have to give equal time or equal space on their Web site to opposing views rather than letting the marketplace of ideas determine that?”
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Wow. Raise your vodka flask and toast to the new era of “fairness” Barack & Co. will bring to America. Does anyone have any doubt that the New American Socialist Party (formally known as the Democrats) will be all over the Fairness doctrine once they control all three branches of government? Does anyone really think that their lust for statist solutions and hatred of Conservative criticism will stop at radio? Ha!
Better start learning the words, comrades.
I’m skeptical of this. The idea it could be restored shouldn’t be brushed aside, but I have a hard time imagining red state Democrats going along with this. Something like this would rally conservatives all over the place and moderate Dems would get crushed in the following election.
Perhaps, but moderate red state Democrats won’t be in charge of Congress- Pelosi and Reid will be, and we already know what they’ll do. If Obama is elected, the far left in Congress will seize the opportunity to go batshit crazy. They will absolutely try to restore the Fairness Doctrine, and if they do, it’s not a stretch to apply it to the internet.
Hopefully, that will ensure a Republican comeback in 2010, but that’s not guaranteed.
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