• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Bring back the fair doctrine act that Ronald Reagan got rid of.

    Edit: And make it an amendment.

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        4 days ago

        How so? Can you explain, or should I look it up?

        I remember something about that during the Clinton years, but I can’t recall what it’s about.

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          It allowed corporations to buy up all the media outlets they wanted, leading to homogenization of content and elimination of voices that corporations find offensive. On The Media podcast did a miniseries about it called The Divided Dial, which was nice to hear because I had been ranting about it for years but it seemed that nobody else was paying attention. I think it’s on YT, but search and ye shall find

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            4 days ago

            Thanks for the info. I guess Clinton is equally as responsible as Reagan for the calamity we are facing today.

            What are your thoughts on what should be done to return sanity to media?

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              3 days ago

              Time to kill every fucking one of those goddamn Nazi pieces of shit Clinton actually campaigned as the first Democratic president to embrace Reagan’s neoliberalism. It’s been a downhill slide ever since. At this point sanity can only be restored through violence, both against the current Nazi regime and against the septuagenarian neoliberals who have a White knuckle grip on the Democrat party

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      5 days ago

      Pandora’s box is already open, I don’t think that would work. Another approach would be to remove hate speech from being considered free speech. Targeting violence towards minority groups shouldn’t be protected by free speech.

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        4 days ago

        Every time they say “sOrOs pAiD aCtOrS” pull an upper incisor out with Vice Grips on pay-per-view