Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Government and Public Censorship

SEE HERE Diversity is a buzz word these days. Mandatory diversity is called tyranny. Diversity in speech through media forced on the media is called censorship. Part of the problem is that all the code words really mean that the government wants to control what is actually reported. That violates a basic freedom guaranteed by the Constitution. The FCC got away with a little of it because your were supposedly using a limited resource which the government parceled out called "bandwidth" (i.e. the radio frequencies on which information was transmitted). That argument doesn't go very far when there are no public resources being used. Cable is not broadcast, nor is the internet. So let's hand the FCC their head and move on. Whatever you want to call it the government has no business telling people what they can say or tune to, read or listen to on any media anyway. The freedom of the people to speak their mind isn't something government should be involved in.

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