I’ve been recovering from an injury and staying with family since I can’t walk right now, and I’ve caught a lot of Fox News is the last five days. Like I knew they were fucked by every segment is either about “Wokeism” (which seems a whole heck of a lot like Cultural Bolshevism) or “Biden’s Communist Agenda. The segment I just saw was them going to Little Mogadishu in Minneapolis and they walk up to three people and those people say they don’t speak English. They went in to say that this was destroying America with “separate cultures” and I was really expecting them to say something about the White Christian Blood and Soil but they must of cut to commercial before that. I guess this is a rant but Jesus fuck we are getting apartheid in 2022.
What is the alternative?
Not really interested in the Speech Police pulling me over for trafficking in disinformation.
You're not allowed to display swastikas or do the nazi salute in Germany. I wouldn't mind that here.
We also used to have the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to at least pretend to present "both sides" of the issues. But I have doubts that such a corrupted state as ours would not hold leftwing perspectives to a much harsher standard than Fox News if they had authority to.
But would it matter? We get censored on social media regularly.
Maybe if they did it for the Confederate Flag. Even then, this shit is so comically easy to selectively enforce. I can absolutely see that guy who yanked the Confederate Flag from a white nationalist march getting busted for "Displaying Treasonous Symbology" while the original owners walk.
Sure. Back when broadcast media was a natural monopoly and cable didn't exist. The theory being that you didn't want a singular view dominating the three different local broadcasters in your media market. The FCC had a whole host of rules that regulated who could own broadcasting equipment, how it could be used, and what it could be used for. That whole period of time culminated in the Reagan Era. Any media system that gives us President Ronald Reagan and just kinda normalizes white nationalism under the Nice Polite Republican banner-head is maybe not so great in hindsight.
On top of all that, we had the House Unamerican Activities Committee, the Hollywood blacklists, and a host of other public-private partnership censoring tools.
It's a big game of wack-a-mole between various political and economic interests. But sites like this can exist and even flourish under the current laisse-faire rule of law.
A tighter media regulatory environment would be used first and foremost to silence leftists. White Nationalists would just reincorporate themselves as Concerned Citizens Councils or plead Religious Liberties Exemption and continue to fly by untouched.