Groups want FCC to police hate speech on talk radio, cable news networks

the hill ^ | 6/1/10 | Gautham Nagesh

[Nachum]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is being urged to monitor "hate speech" on talk radio and cable broadcast networks.

A coalition of more than 30 organizations argue in a letter to the FCC that the Internet has made it harder for the public to separate the facts from bigotry masquerading as news.

The groups also charge that syndicated radio and cable television programs "masquerading as news" use hate as a profit model.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[FourPeas]

Seems to me part of freedom is the freedom to hate and to express it no matter how offensive it may be to some people. Guess I got that wrong...

[Gene Eric]

These groups are equivalent to book burners.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Looks like ACORN is getting their mojo back.

[Mr. Wright]

I know there is one radio station in NYM (Black Station)
that is constantly on “whitey’s” case. Wlll they be included in the monitoring process?

[GeronL]

It is freedom of thought they want to shut down

[Mr. Wright]

Above post should read NYC (New York City) — sorry for the goof!

[GSWarrior]

Internet has made it harder for the public to separate the facts from bigotry masquerading as news

The problem is not the internet. The problem is that people are too stupid to separate opinion from facts.

[sauropod]

reading the comment section on The Hill sent chills down my spine.

Amazing how many fascists live amongst us.

[farlander]

Free speech thing sure is a bitch, isn’t it.

[al baby]

Who decides what is hate speech

[lonestar]

A coalition of more than 30 organizations argue in a letter to the FCC that the Internet has made it harder for the public to separate the facts from bigotry masquerading as news.

This will be the undoing of ABCBSNBCMSNBC, etc., because the Internet, in many respects, has shown the bigotry masquerading as news!

Dan Rather's biased lying about GWB's National Guard records comes to mind.

[I see my hands]

"These groups are equivalent to book burners"

I disagree. Book burning is a celebration of freedom. This administration is not about freedom.

[M Kehoe]

A coalition of more than 30 organizations argue in a letter to the FCC that the Internet has made it harder for the public to separate the facts from bigotry masquerading as news.

Excellent. Publish the names and principles of the aforementioned 30 organizations.

Sure would be fun locating them...

5.56mm

[D1X1E]

..."masquerading as news" use hate as a profit model".

Must be talking about MSNBC /s

[Star Traveler]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is being urged to monitor "hate speech" on talk radio and cable broadcast networks.

Getting into the "hate speech" designation is basically having one group tell another group that they don't like what they're saying. Sorry... that's not the free speech that should be available on the Internet and on the airwaves.

Sure, this kind of free speech means that things get "hammered" that I don't like to see getting hammered -- like people saying ridiculous things about Christianity (for example). But, I'll put up with that, so that -- on the "other side of the coin" that no one comes back and says I can't talk about things from what Christianity says, too ...

Those "others" can hammer away all they want on things like Christianity and I'll hammer right back ... LOL ... that's the kind of free speech that I like ... :-)

[mware]

...and so it begins.

[kenth]

More than half. They might as well come out and name Fox News and conservatives. Any idea they oppose is deemed “hate speech.” They think that preventing people from speaking will keep reality from intruding upon their fantasy utopia.

[abb]

And these are the same groups pushing “net neutrality.”