And to be honest, I don't care - except, what is good for the goose, will be good for the gander. If Democrats enforce it, Republicans will come along and remove it.
Plus, I would think liberals hypocrits to criticize any effort by anyone to possibly censor feee speech when that is exactly what this does. By requiring certain numbers of views and opinions, you are not being fair, you are controlling.
Big government. Big brother. Lies.
FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content McDowell warns
reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites.
By Jeff Poor
8/12/2008
There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content policy.”
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. McDowell spoke about a recent FCC vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain Internet practices – expanding the federal agency’s oversight of Internet networks.
The commissioner, a 2006 President Bush appointee, told the Business & Media Institute the Fairness Doctrine could be intertwined with the net neutrality battle. The result might end with the government regulating content on the Web, he warned. McDowell, who was against reprimanding Comcast, said the net neutrality effort could win the support of “a few isolated conservatives” who may not fully realize the long-term effects of government regulation.
“I think the fear is that somehow large corporations will censor their content, their points of view, right,” McDowell said. “I think the bigger concern for them should be if you have government dictating content policy, which by the way would have a big First Amendment problem.”
“Then, whoever is in charge of government is going to determine what is fair, under a so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine,’ which won’t be called that – it’ll be called something else,” McDowell said. “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?”
Lies my liberals told me
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