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Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news.
"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!" Mr Trump wrote in a tweet.
Mr Trump's tweet came in response to a story written by NBC, which said that Mr Trump had sought to increase America's nuclear arsenal tenfold after taking a look at a briefing slide that showed stead reduction of the US nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. The story cited three officials who were reportedly in the room when Mr Trump made the comments.
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:30PM (4 children)
In other words, the 1st Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but not to possess printing presses? It guarantees freedom of speech, but not to be heard? It guarantees the right to peaceably assemble, but not to a permit to do so?
Is that the crux of your argument?
I think if you stop and consider that a little further, such restrictions eviscerate the 1st Amendment and render it null and void.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:10PM (3 children)
Reading skills have deteriorated badly I see. Anyone can own a printing press, my owning one doesn't diminish the supply and restrict your also owning one. If nobody will sell you one a simple one can be built by anyone handy with power tools. This is entirely legal and owning, manufacturing or using a printing press is not regulated in any way by the State, although there are a few postal regs to consider. My owning a cable news channel doesn't really impact the ability of you to launch a competing one because the limit on most cable systems is how many channels they can bundle before subscribers revolt, not hitting the physical limit of their spectrum so we are free to compete for carriage. And as long as I can find a DNS registrar who won't cancel the domain I can of course do pretty much whatever I want on the Internet and not impact you in the slightest. I can't buy or wrangle a TV license in most of the country for any amount of money because the available slots are full and as a cis white guy I'm out of consideration anyway. There is a very limited supply of available broadcast slots; This is why they are licensed by the government and grant of a license is subject to restrictions, you do not have an absolute 1st Amendment Right to use a broadcast facility for any purpose you desire. Please consult the Communications Act of 1934, as Amended, if you do not believe me. The text is available online.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:11PM (2 children)
as a cis white guy I'm out of consideration anyway
I wonder what the portion of people who have broadcasting licenses (or spectrum usage licenses I guess) are "cis white guys"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:18PM (1 child)
I'm thinking 0.1, or maybe as high as 0.25%. Totally underrepresented.
Also Trump and the Republicans are in power and we know that affirmative action is their favorite policy.
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 20 2017, @05:54AM
I lived with it for a long time. And I've had great relationships with lots of people. I have great African-American friendships. I have just amazing relationships. And so many positive things have happened. So I'm fine with it. I don’t like what the late Justice Scalia said, no, I don’t like what he said. I heard him, I was like, "Let me read it again," because I actually read it in print, and I’m going, I read a lot of stuff, and I’m going, "Woah!" What he said was very tough to the African-American community.