It isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
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.”
If some future bureaucrat tries to stomp on Virtucon’s First Amendment rights, we will not comply and they’ll have to shut us down to stop us from engaging in free political discourse the way that we see fit.
Filed under: Blogging, Federal Government, Regulation
[...] certainly hope that the “Fairness Doctrine” never returns. It surely wasn’t fair, unless you subscribed to the Soviet definition of the [...]