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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on March 07, 2023, 03:25:20 PM

Title: ...couldn't there be a cease and desist order against Fox "News"
Post by: dutch508 on March 07, 2023, 03:25:20 PM
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Star Member Sogo (4,209 posts)
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I don't know how it would be carried out, but couldn't there be a cease and desist order
against Fox "News" for inciting violence? or fomenting a coup? or interfering with official proceedings (elections)? or...

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Star Member Chainfire (12,522 posts)

3. There is nothing criminal about lying to the public.

As the Jan. 6 insurrectionists have found out, it is illegal to act on the lie.

The Civil courts may accomplish what the criminal courts can't.

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Star Member Ocelot II (106,395 posts)

4. No.

Brandenburg v. Ohio says the First Amendment protects any speech that doesn't meet the test of being intended to incite imminent lawless action. In other words, the incitement has to be specific and immediately meant to cause an unlawful act. What Fox does might be considered stochastic terrorism, but it lacks the specificity needed to take it outside the coverage of the First Amendment.

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Star Member lees1975 (2,436 posts)

8. But Trump's speech prior to the Trump Insurrection does indeed meet the test.

So why is he still walking around free, campaigning for a second term? He should be arrested, indicted, convicted and in jail by now.

 :whatever:

Title: Re: ...couldn't there be a cease and desist order against Fox "News"
Post by: jukin on March 07, 2023, 03:51:07 PM
So quick to use the government to suppress any evidence or people they have been indoctrinated to hate.

Every time. Every situation.

But we are the fascists.... uhhuh.
Title: Re: ...couldn't there be a cease and desist order against Fox "News"
Post by: RuralNc on March 07, 2023, 07:26:48 PM
Quote from: jukin on March 07, 2023, 03:51:07 PM
So quick to use the government to suppress any evidence or people they have been indoctrinated to hate.

Every time. Every situation.

But we are the fascists.... uhhuh.

For the greater good of their precious "Democracy". Of course.  :whatever:
Title: Re: ...couldn't there be a cease and desist order against Fox "News"
Post by: CollectivismMustDie on March 08, 2023, 10:08:08 AM
Tell me again how dems libs leftists and DUmmies aren't all about censorship.
Title: Re: ...couldn't there be a cease and desist order against Fox "News"
Post by: enslaved1 on March 08, 2023, 12:07:00 PM
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Star Member Chainfire (12,522 posts)

3. There is nothing criminal about lying to the public.

Good thing for Faucci, Biden, Shuemer, Pelosi, Pfizer, Scarbourough, NYT, CNN, too many other leftists to list, amiright?