[HN Gopher] Twitter bans Florida Republican for encouraging the ...
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       Twitter bans Florida Republican for encouraging the killing of
       federal agents
        
       Author : anigbrowl
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-08-19 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | evolve2k wrote:
       | What is the fundamental value / mindset within America that would
       | need to shift for all of this to shift?
        
         | CamperBob2 wrote:
         | Hard to address without getting overtly political, but much of
         | it comes down to what happened with the rise of right-wing mass
         | media. "Indoctrination" is not too strong a word to use. If Fox
         | News had never existed, the Republican Party would have had to
         | invent it.
         | 
         | Some would argue that the loss of the FCC's Fairness Doctrine
         | contributed, but I see that as a non-starter. It would never
         | have applied to cable news or to the Internet, only to
         | broadcast media, and in any case it would only have given the
         | fallacy of "both sides-ism" more credibility than it has
         | already.
         | 
         | As far as what it will take to restore the status quo and
         | return at least a veneer of civility to partisan politics, I
         | have no idea. It probably can't be restored. A good start might
         | be to force news outlets to declare themselves as either "News"
         | or "Entertainment," rather than the unholy hybrids we have now
         | that exist to spread lies, incite violence, and issue
         | misleading talking points under the guise of commentary. But
         | that has obvious 1A implications. Again, it could have been
         | justified as a public-interest requirement for over-the-air
         | broadcast outlets, but that ship has sailed.
        
           | r00fus wrote:
           | Why do you think the Fairness Doctrine wouldn't have been
           | applied to cable/internet (eventually)?
           | 
           | TBH, I think the loss of Fairness Doctrine, Citizens United
           | decision, etc are all skirting the real issue: the concept
           | that corporations are people. Not enshrined in law, but from
           | old Supreme Court decision in 1886.
           | 
           | Make corporations non-people (or limit their personhood
           | aggressively) and you can actually punish them effectively
           | without a corporate death penalty which is never used.
        
             | CamperBob2 wrote:
             | The ability of the FCC to exercise enforcement power over
             | broadcast content, seemingly in defiance of the First
             | Amendment, is a tradeoff that OTA broadcasters have to
             | accept in exchange for their station licenses. In exchange
             | for being granted a legally-enforced monopoly over a given
             | frequency for a given geographical area, they agree to
             | carry programming that's considered to be in the public
             | interest, and to adhere to strict content regulations.
             | 
             | Cable networks and websites don't require these monopoly
             | privileges, so they aren't, and shouldn't be, required to
             | adhere to broadcast content standards.
        
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