This is weird, because don't both parties loathe the fairness doctrine because its repeal enabled their requisite propaganda outlets? Could this be that rare bird of a principled take from a politician? (However misguided as you mention.) Can't be.
important to remember there are only two sides to any given political debate, Republican and Democrat, and we should permanently insulate these positions from critique with the force of lawhttps://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1347181137026756611 …
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it’s the authoritarian position tbh. though yes, technically a principle. really scraping the bottom of the barrel here...
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No opinions outside the establishment allowed!
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It was created to suppress talk radio shows, will they expand it to podcasts?
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Doubt it could be applied to cable anyway. The constitutional justification for it was that the broadcasters were using the public airways so could be regulated in the public interest.
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agree this would have a hard time holding up in court
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Let's steelman this though. Duverger's Law says that an FPTP system always stabilizes around two roughly equally sized coalitions. A rule like "no excommunicating the other coalition" might have pragmatic value.
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(FWIW though I'm uncomfortable giving the govt the power to enforce that, for the obvious reasons)
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The crazy thing is, if voters voted on issues not party/politician- it would be so much more productive. So much dumbassery in wanting to win rather than actually govern
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Also important to remember there aren't any other sources of information other than those regulated by the FCC.
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