Project 2025: Expand the hell out of FCC oversight

[DeluxAuto]

https://abuwjaawap.cloudimg.io/v7/_lgbtqnation-assets_/assets/2025/01/lgbtq-nation-logo.pngHA! HA! HA! What da fuck is that? Not too biased a rag.

Now read the article. Gabbard got her shitty info from a right wing nutter who ended up proving himself to be a liar.

You dumb fucking ignorant traitor.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Yea that's why you deflected....you don't understand.

At least politruk tried to beat around the bush.

lol, sure bobo.I didn't deflect. I said you don't understand. If you did, you would never have asked the question.

 

[UltraChad]

lol, sure bobo.I didn't deflect. I said you don't understand. If you did, you would never have asked the question.

Jesus Christ on a cross trainer you are dumber than absolute dog shit.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Jesus Christ on a cross trainer you are dumber than absolute dog shit.

Then why did you ask the question?

I've posted it below, so maybe you can keep up with the class....

They don't depend on the American economy.

Then why are they so fucking mad about losing access to it?

 

[DeluxAuto]

Are they still denying this was the plan all along?

 

[Rightguide]

Project 2025, despite Trump insisting that he had NOTHING to do with it, is rapidly becoming the blueprint for the second Trump regime. This should be obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature (sorry AceDesSpades, WatTyler, and Ultrachad).

The constant howls of "dismantle this agency, dismantle that agency" drowns out most discussion about the ONE agency that MAGA wants to EXPAND THE HELL OUT OF: The Federal Communications Commission.

The chapter in Project 2025 dealing with the FCC was written by an ideological zealot name Brendan Carr. Guess who Tangerine Palpatine nominated to be the new chairman of the FCC? If you said Brendan Carr, you get a cookie.

Exactly why is Brendan Carr so bad? Let me explain.

The power of the FCC has been dwindling each year. The FCC regulates the nation's airwaves, parceling out by auction valuable radio spectrums for radio and broadcast signals.

The problem? Airwaves become increasingly irrelevant as the years pass, the majority of Muricans use something called "the Internet" now, with streaming services making airwaves increasingly obsolete. The FCC has had exactly TWO "moments in the sun" in the past two decades: the 1/2 second peek at Janet Jackson's pierced nipple at the halftime show on February 4, 2004 and Presidential candidate Kamala Harris surprise appearance on the live broadcast of Saturday Night Live on November 2, 2024, the latter caused the demented Mango Mussolini to yell for "equal time" which he got the following day at some stupid NASCAR race live broadcast.

The "Fairness Doctrine" is dead and buried, it only applied to public airwaves and not to internet podcasts or streams.

It's not coming back.

What's an authoritarian to do?

The Trump administration seems hellbent on re-interpreting the 26 words that make up the "safe harbor" provision of the infamous Section 230 section that largely holds platform providers harmless for the content that their users post. Both Congress AND more noticeably the conservate Supreme Court have beaten back dozens of attempts to modify Section 230 over the past two decades, something about "free speech" and all that nonsense.

So the Trump administration, via Brendan Carr, is attempting to assert the "right" of the Executive Branch to reinterpret Section 230 as it seems fit, and find an extralegal way to hold platforms accountable for the content of their users, not subject to legislative and/or judicial review.

The biggest immediate change would be the eradication of YouTube. Google owns YouTube and YouTube would vanish overnight should Google become liable for the content of its content creators.

Closer to "home", the politics board would disappear from Literotica forever the first time @AceDesSpades goes on one of his increasingly frequent racist rants, or ammosexual @Wat_Tyler celebrates the next school massacre, or @UltraChad and/or @HisArpy engage in one of their daily misogynistic jihads. Their rancid hate speech would open the doors to Manu and Laurel being liable for their behavior.

The Supreme Court has declared time and time again there is no legal remedy in Section 230 for things like the popularity of podcasts, there is no need to balance the reach of, say, Joe Rogan with some sort of liberal podcast. The remedy is competition as there is no barrier to entry, anyone with a microphone can create their own podcast.

The ultimate goal of the Trumpist authoritarians is to wield a crude cudgel to bludgeon "free speech" that doesn't coincide with their policy direction. We see this more and more, specifically the appeal of Elon Musk's increasingly authoritarian "X" platform. Musk has chosen to force-feed his enormous user base a steadily increasing diet of authoritarian-friendly pablum, with increasingly dollops of crypto-Nazi propaganda via his infamous "algorithm".

What "administrative fiat control over the internet" would mean is basically government oversight of large platform "algorithms", the "recommended for you" feeds that are shown by default to each platform user. Platform users are increasingly aware that they are being "led by the nose" on most social media plaforms (Facebook, Threads, YouTube and Twitter the most prominent examples) and many are opting for the burgeoning number of sites that purport to be "algorithm free" (Hello Bluesky!).

The adoption of algorithm-free platforms poses an existential threat to the delivery of authoritarian-friendly commentary necessary to ensure the grudging acceptance of the new authoritarian agenda.

The Trumpers simply want to punish their enemies (specifically "Elon Musk's enemies") with carefully worded proclamations about the "necessity" of Americans to see "all sides" of an argument via algorithm oversite, which is a dogwhistle of course to cram their toxic agenda down everyone's throats.



And Brenda Carr is the guy who wants to make this happen.


https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/brendan-carr-trump-fcc-elon-musk-rcna180650
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/18/brendan-carr-trump-fcc-chair
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...o-lead-the-fcc-poses-a-threat-to-free-speech/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fcc-brendan-carr-project-2025-what-to-know/
https://fortune.com/2024/11/19/trum...230-meta-facebook-instagram-tiktok-x-youtube/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/01/trump-fcc-media-crackdown/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/media/brendan-carr-trump-fcc-nominee-project-2025/index.html

It was your side who decided to cancel the First Amendment for the majority of Americans. so stop whining when they attempt to recover their rights and shut down the monolithic Deep state media.