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TEXinLA 200 points ago +201 / -1

On the bright side, OANN sold out of shirts yesterday and has an amazing backorder.

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agile_a 11 points ago +16 / -5

breaking news app won't work. you can only break something up if it's a monopoly. like when Teddy Roosevelt broke up the sugar company. It was a monopoly. there was no other company. And so he broke it up into multiple little companies. you can't break up a news network if there's multiple other news networks..

it's so annoying when Libertarians push this when they clearly don't understand how it works.

the media doesn't need to be broken up. The media needs to be regulated. we tried it the other way. we tried letting them say whatever they wanted. That didn't work. s it's time to try something different

wish I have the FCC and FTC enforce various campaign finance rules and broadcast rules that issue fines to Media outlets caught deliberately lying or deliberately promoting one party over another. The FCC can take action against outlets that are deliberately lying and the FEC can take action against outlets caught promoting one party over the other by counting it as campaign donationss

and we also have to have the FCC classify Facebook Twitter Google YouTube Reddit as public utilities like the telecoms and forbid them from censoring any content for any reasonn

we tried letting them regulate themselves and that didn't work they showed that they can't do it..

so time to do it the other wayy

CNN has to pay money every time they are caught deliberately lying they will either stop lying or they will go out of business. either way it's a win..

and for the naysayers and apocalypse fear-mongers: yes I also want that to apply to Fox News unlike you I'm not trying to use regulations agains political enemies I'm trying to apply to evenl to everybody. It Fox News is lying they should also receive a fine alsoo

because we know that they live plenty. I even made that fake impeachment poll claiming that 60% of Americans wanted to impeach Donald Trump. which is hotter bullshit. especially considering 94% of Republicans support Donald Trump and he had a pretty good support Arjun the independentt

if you want real change what I suggested is that you do. If you want fake change to just panther to a couple of people that are upset in the hopes that they will eventually forget about it then you can go on with nonsense about breaking up companies that will never be broken up or whatever else Libertarians are pushing once they realize they couldd no longer sweep it under the rug