“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?”I'd actually like to see such a ridiculously miscalculated overreaching, but don't think this is really imminent. Still, it's another camel's nose/slippery slope reason to vigorously oppose "fairness doctrine" tyranny now.
*Easy, there...
The reason I write my blog is so that I can give my point of view. If people want another perspective they can find an opposing blog. Not to mention there are times when I poke fun at some people such as politicians who make stupid policy, such as those with this fairness doctrine. What are bloggers supposed to do; make fun of them and then give the opposing viewpoint as well? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteLet's be for real people, the American public is not so dumb or so lazy that we can not find opposing views on a matter.
The thought struck--if such an absurd law passes, Nazis would probably have a "right" to demand equal space on a blog devoted to Holocaust victims.
ReplyDeleteThat is very true....perhaps they will have a special site dedicated to them at the Smithsonian Institute's Holocaust Museum website. I mean it would only be fair right?
ReplyDeleteIt would be ironic if the shooting starts when feds try to shut down blogs.
ReplyDeleteThey will try. As it now stands they have lost control of the flow of information. That restricts them and their plans to garner ever more power.
ReplyDeleteThey will do something to "regulate" the internet. count on it. And we all know what "regulate" means.
Thank John "Ration That Speech!" McCain.
ReplyDeleteRush Limbaugh may be a pacifier for the Establishment, but when he's demanded to allow equal time for rebuttals, he says "I AM equal time!" So are we. We don't have millions and billions in broadcasting or publishing assets like our enemies. We only have these pages composed of tamed photons. The ones I frequent WELCOME comments by the anti-freedom faction. Then they use logic to disprove their assertions piece by piece. They may take some of our bandwidth, but they'll never take our freedom. Long live the Resistance!