Is there any legal way to shut down Tucker Carlson/Fox

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Budi (13,722 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216477836

Is there any legal way to shut down Tucker Carlson/Fox

Kremlin memos obtained by @MotherJones show Putin's government pushing Russian media to use #TuckerCarlson "as much as possible" in its #Ukraine war coverage. They include the talking point that the US is engaged in "biogenocide" against Russia.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/exclusive-kremlin-putin-russia-ukraine-war-memo-tucker-carlson-fox/
Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson
The Russian government has pressed outlets to highlight the Fox host’s Putin-helping broadcasts.

Star Member Walleye (12,925 posts)

1. Confiscate his bank account

 I know that can’t be done but it’s worth thinking about. Maybe tax his salary at 100%. Oh and if he has a boat, take that too.

Star Member mucifer (20,853 posts)

2. They could at least block it on USA military bases FFS

Star Member Mr. Evil (1,687 posts)

71. Dangerous and false information is not protected free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater#:~:text=%22Shouting%20fire%20in%20a%20crowded%20theater%22%20is%20a,the%20United%20States%20Supreme%20Court%20case%20Schenck%20v.

It's a short read.

unblock (50,087 posts)

5. Well, in theory, the msm could always refer to foxnews as a propaganda outlet,

and always note the how the Republican talking points are always coordinated and always serving Russia's interests.

But that would demand accurate, responsible journalism from the msm; clearly something beyond their own abilities these days.

Star Member Baitball Blogger (41,007 posts)

7. Just about the only things that seem to take down these toxic talking mouths is

accusations of sexual misbehavior and Covid.

Star Member TheBlackAdder (22,774 posts)

8. First thing, FOX needs to be registered as a Foreign Agent.

Star Member vlyons (8,156 posts)

11. What we can do about Tucker Carlson

1) boycott the products and services that advertise in his time slot

2) to those companies that advertise in his time slot that you will no longer any products or services from companies that advertise in his time slot

keithbvadu2 (24,892 posts)

12. New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142128590

New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media

Aug 2018

“Freedom of the press may be guaranteed in the Constitution. But a plurality of Republicans want to give President Trump the authority to close down certain news outlets, according to a new public opinion survey conducted by Ipsos and provided exclusively to The Daily Beast.”

So that same 43% of republicans would approve a democrat shutting down Fox news?

Star Member Midnight Writer (14,880 posts)

26. Revoke Murdoch's citizenship and forbid him from operating in our country.

We let this guy buy up our media property and engage in malicious lying, slandering, libeling, praising America's enemies and demonizing America's friends. He broadcasts harmful public health information, causing the deaths of thousands. He starts a "news" channel, takes advantage of our press freedoms, all the while denying that it is a news channel.

He is selling poison. If he ran a chain of restaurants and served harmful menu items and lied about what he was serving, if he ran a pharmaceutical company and manufactured poison and sold it as medicine, if he ran an investment firm and lied to his clients, if he ran a hospital and his doctors killed patients with bogus diagnosis and phony medicine, he could be held accountable.

But if he works everyday to undermine our nation, destroy our democracy, lie about virtually everything, spread disinformation, divisiveness, and hate?

Well, that's OK.

He has abused his privilege as an American citizen in order to hurt us all. The only reason he gets away with it is because he greases the right palms.

Star Member bucolic_frolic (30,142 posts)

40. Wartime censorship would place restrictions on the press

and I would argue we are at war, both at home and abroad, but our involvement doesn't fit the classic and perhaps legal threshold of war.

But I think as far as freedom of the press is concerned we're getting close. And I do see reporters on TV that are giving seemingly official accounts that could have been written by our security agencies. They just don't say it, because we have a free press, but they toe the government line.

TDFG wanted restrictions on the press, but we have to be totally 1A Guys.

hadEnuf (1,286 posts)

42. Carlson and Fox are seditious.

That is the bottom line.

We are a free country that believes in freedom of speech but that does not allow for open sedition like what's happening now.

I believe there are laws to address this. Someone needs to grow a pair and enforce them.

melm00se (4,467 posts)

119. No one thinks that this

is something that the Kremlin might release hoping that Tucker Carlson and Fox are shut down which would further fracture and separate the left and right?

 

[ADsOutburst]

If there were a legal way, you can be sure democrats would have done it already. What, you think they've refrained from doing so out of the kindness of their hearts?

[Ralph Wiggum]

Not Mother Jones, that bastion of journalistic honesty!!!



I was expecting a breathless expose from Raw Story or the Palmer Report.

[DUmpDiver]

Kremlin memos obtained by @MotherJones

DUmmies will believe ANYTHING. 

(Except for the truth.)

[67 Rover]

DUmmies will believe ANYTHING. 

(Except for the truth.)

Kremlin memos conveniently written in English. 

[SVPete]

Kremlin memos conveniently written in English. 

And conveniently sent to a US leftwing magazine. Mother Jones and Prog Fox-Haters got played, probably by another Prog Fox-Hater.

[Karin]

What makes any of you mutts think that you have the power to do any of that shit?  Freeze bank accounts, revoke citizenships, stealing boats, 100% tax rates for one guy?  You are absolutely nothing with no power whatsoever. 

What an exhausting thread.  All the leftists today:  "Anything I don't like is TREASON!"  It's so ignorant. 

[SVPete]

What makes any of you mutts think that you have the power to do any of that shit?  Freeze bank accounts, revoke citizenships, stealing boats, 100% tax rates for one guy?  You are absolutely nothing with no power whatsoever.

Progressives' Wet Dreams.

[67 Rover]

Progressives' Wet Dreams.

November cannot come fast enough.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Is there one specific quote that lib-tards claim that Tucker said to be pro-Putin?  Don't watch or listen to him every night, but it appears the left is twisting his words and taking a phrase out of context as proof.

Cite something as an example.  A tweet from the Joyless twins Reid and Behar or Uncle Fester Brian Stelter doesn't count as evidence.

[Old n Grumpy]

Is there any legal way to shut down Tucker Carlson/Fox

use the remote to change the channel, then use it ti block Fox.

[BannedFromDU]

use the remote to change the channel, then use it ti block Fox.

     I recently heard about something called Operation Bulna. I think it has something to do with people changing the station on public TVs and hiding the remote. Seeing as how DUmmies are too timid to leave their hovels, I am not sure who'd do the heavy lifting.

[FlaGator]

Scooby Doo ending:

"I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for that meddling Constitution."

[FiddyBeowulf]

“It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson

So...the same thing Media Matters does.

[freedumb2003b]

Kremlin memos conveniently written in English. 

But they are to be read in Russian Accent

[SVPete]

So...the same thing Media Matters does.

  !

But they are to be read in Russian Accent, dahlink

 

[landofconfusion80]

There's a YouTube guy that gives nice updates daily on the Ukraine conflict. For whatever reason, the guy is completely convinced that tucker Carlson is completely on board with the Russian invading them, even to the point of saying he'd like to physically fight him

[BannedFromDU]

There's a YouTube guy that gives nice updates daily on the Ukraine conflict. For whatever reason, the guy is completely convinced that tucker Carlson is completely on board with the Russian invading them, even to the point of saying he'd like to physically fight him

     Tucker Carlson is merely pointing out what a terrible, no-win, shitty situation it is, and how Biden is making it worse by being a limp-wristed pants-shitting moron about it. Liberals want HIM to be breathing fire about no fly zones and American boots on the ground so THEY can be the voice of restraint and reason. They can't stand having their chickenhawking called out.

[landofconfusion80]

     Tucker Carlson is merely pointing out what a terrible, no-win, shitty situation it is, and how Biden is making it worse by being a limp-wristed pants-shitting moron about it. Liberals want HIM to be breathing fire about no fly zones and American boots on the ground so THEY can be the voice of restraint and reason. They can't stand having their chickenhawking called out.

To the guys credit, he says he focuses on military stuff mostly so doesn't follow much commentary. His perception is probably based on snippets of Carlson. He asked his moderator what the comments were saying about the issue and the moderator hesitantly said it was split, lol