What a crock. The fairness doctrine actually required MORE speech. "Fake news" is called "lies" by some people, but you go on and defend the right to lie if you like. Feel free to flesh out your "etc." as well. I hereby encourage you to speak MORE on your ideas!
Wait what? not sure you know what the fairness doctrine is. It forced broadcasters to air certain points of view. What is it you think controlling speech is? Yes please tell me what is and isn't true oh great one. Lord knows i cant decide for myself. that's not controlling speech at all....... the OP just gave you examples of people trying to prevent me from hearing opinions. Its the whole point of this thread. I just watched the Sessions confirmation the other day where on 3-4 occasions lefties tried to stop me from hearing Session's answers.
The fairness doctrine didn't force them to air certain points of view. It forced them to cover opposing political opponents an equal amount of airtime. It didn't limit the free speech but gave more opportunity for free speech by allowing both sides to have coverage.
There are some people here freaking out over freedom of expression. They might as well be freaking out about the Constitution.
I'm not sure that there are more lefty protests or protesters but the media tends to give them more coverage.
That wasn't what I asked. You stated that liberal try to limit your free speech. What speech have been limited to by liberals or attempted to be limited by?
No, you don't know what it is. Broadcasters didn't write people's speeches for them. If one Democrat got airtime--say, the President--then the fairness doctrine required the broadcaster to air a response from a Republican. Care to explain how that limits speech rather than encouraging it? If you can't recognize anything that's false, then you're intellectually hopeless and not someone to be taken seriously. Why in hell should anyone be compelled to disseminate things that are known to be false?
I don't think this bears out. In some areas, I've seen policy innovation from Democrats but in others it's mostly been Republicans, particularly in economics where they've led the charge in breaking up traditional monopolies, privatization, creating markets to solve problems, deregulation, and globalization. You can say that's good or bad, but those were new and required action and energy to accomplish. They have also not been conservative in the use of military force (or the use of technology to modernize that military) to shape geopolitics. There are even social issues where they have taken action to change the status quo, such as the expansion of gun rights. You might call it reactionary, but the creative ways in which conservative legislatures have recently tried to undermine a woman's right to choose abortion challenges 50 years of practice and involves a lot of proactive energy. Saying conservatives are defined by adherence to the status quo isn't right. Even when they seek to regain something they think we had a half-century ago, they're still advocating change from what we're doing now. On balance I would even say the Republicans have been more the party of change during my lifetime. In many ways, Democrats are still stuck in the '60s, trying to preserve the yesteryear victories in civil rights (albeit now expanded to LGBT and other parties that are a rational extension of the original logic), safety net, and progressive tax policy.
Because (in general) the left is made up of younger folks...especially those that protest. The right is (in general) made up of older folks. The young are idealistic and passionate.... The old are more thoughtful and less reactionary and most importantly have other things to attend to. The above are huge generalizations...but I believe to be mostly true.
I did? that's what i just said.... me: It forced broadcasters to air certain points of view. and yes of course that's trying to control speech. If you are applying force to speech then you are controlling speech. who decides what is known to be false? you?
The left are the ones who expect government to take care of them. The right tend to take care of themselves.... like get a job and deal with life.
I remember being in DC during obama's second inauguration ceremony. (I wasn't there for that purpose) the amount of religious nut jobs with crosses screaming repent was a little much..
I remember all those old "liberals" shouting down congressmen/senators about Obamacare taking their Medicare
It's their culture. They have to have a persecution complex to justify their actions. It's like how in Star Wars Episode 7 Leia's group is still called the Rebellion even though they already beat the Empire.
Can you show what you mean? If they best people can do is one congressman yelling two words then aren't they proving the OPs point? Code pink, blm, every college in the country, trump rallies. Liberals always disrupt speech they disapprove of. The tea party for example never does this.
