More legalized. Lobbying was already legalized bribery. Citizens United was just them making sure they get to pick who they bribe.
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jontree255@lemmy.world 4 days agoYeah it’s part of the problem. I think it’s exacerbated by the fact that the US basically legalized bribery with Citizens United.
thelivefive@startrek.website 3 days ago
OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And also allowed them to bribe anonymously, don’t forget that very important part.
devolution@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fairness doctrine being abolished was the end of America.
jontree255@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s one bullet point on a long list that got us here. Installing a Christian nationalist dictatorship has been the right’s goal for 50+ years.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.
fishy@lemmy.today 3 days ago
It’s not a silver bullet, but it was a very useful way to ensure people didn’t become radicalized by just listening to one side lie constantly. There’s a reason why Reagan and Nixon wanted it gone, and we’re living through the repercussions of not having it now; radicalized far right extremists everywhere and in control of the government. Also, we could have made updates to expand it or introduce new legislation to curb extremism on other platforms.
Definitely far from perfect but better than our current reality.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
On the contrary, lots of people were radicalized by hearing people like new age healers given the same airtime as medical doctors.
It’s taken 20 years to fail at making the publicly funded internet a utility. The purpose of the doctrine was to govern publicly owned airwaves. I strongly believe it would have been and is impossible to expand the FCCs jurisdiction to include privately owned networks. I also strongly believe that the current administration would abuse the fuck out of these regulations.