Comment by kevin_thibedeau
9 hours ago
FCC is a special cause because private entities are using a public resource that must be managed. The content controls were a way to prevent Hearst style journalism spreading to radio and television. It worked well until the era of entertainment news developed.
How about copyright infringement, false advertising, sharing classified documents, tobacco advertising? There are a LOT of special cases.
Maybe there shouldn’t be and all of those things should be free from government interference, but the status quo is that plenty of speech is regulated.
Copyright enforcement is not a form of censorship.
So basically controls on speech that are good are not censorship and therefore good, but ones that are bad are censorship and therefore bad? That doesn’t feel like an especially defensible view.
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It most certainly is abused that way. See every garbage DMCA takedown request submitted by scumbag corporation du juor.
This doesn't even take into account the endless lobbying by Disney to pervert copyright law into what it is today.