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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This shit will never get fixed until radical fascist media talking heads get dragged into the streets and beaten to a pulp every time they lie through their goddamn traitor teeth about tEh sAtAnIc bAby kIllIng dEmOnCrAts.

Fuck the goddamn First Amendment; if you cant use it responsibly you LOSE IT. These fuckers need to be crushed like the vile, pedophile cockroaches that they are.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Bring back the fair doctrine act that Ronald Reagan got rid of.

Edit: And make it an amendment.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 1996 Telecommunications Act is the MUCH more insidious actor.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How so? Can you explain, or should I look it up?

I remember something about that during the Clinton years, but I can't recall what it's about.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It allowed corporations to buy up all the media outlets they wanted, leading to homogenization of content and elimination of voices that corporations find offensive. On The Media podcast did a miniseries about it called The Divided Dial, which was nice to hear because I had been ranting about it for years but it seemed that nobody else was paying attention. I think it's on YT, but search and ye shall find

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info. I guess Clinton is equally as responsible as Reagan for the calamity we are facing today.

What are your thoughts on what should be done to return sanity to media?

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Time to kill every fucking one of those goddamn Nazi pieces of shit Clinton actually campaigned as the first Democratic president to embrace Reagan's neoliberalism. It's been a downhill slide ever since. At this point sanity can only be restored through violence, both against the current Nazi regime and against the septuagenarian neoliberals who have a White knuckle grip on the Democrat party

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pandora's box is already open, I don't think that would work. Another approach would be to remove hate speech from being considered free speech. Targeting violence towards minority groups shouldn't be protected by free speech.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Every time they say "sOrOs pAiD aCtOrS" pull an upper incisor out with Vice Grips on pay-per-view