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you must have missed the threatened show trial aka; hearings in congress, and the increasing of fines for future incidents being upped from 27 g's to 275 g's per occurance... and similar events. Clearly recognized and discussed across the industry as a "shot across the bow" ballyhooed and cheered by so-cons.

This action will be refocussed to target websites, and conservative talk shows or even those who simply disagree with a current administration, perhaps as "hate speech". Because the next time, it probably won't be "our team" in charge... though we will take the hits. And it will be related to calling gay marriages illegal, or the nea a terrorist group, or stating that Islam is NOT peace.. or whatever we believe and say publicly that offends somebody else, on any level.

Rush will be on the list.
so will whoever challenges the powers that be.

Criticizing gay marriage will qualify, and the FCC will enforce it with jackbooted glee. So-cons will cry foul, but too late, for what is it but sauce for the goose... and pass them the basting brush.

There is a law of unintended consequences that makes all socialistic edicts evil, even if they benefit that which is right in the short term. The same exact power used to enforce what the majority (today) rightly believes is right or wrong, will one day be used to enforce what the majority or minority believes at the expense of what is actually morally right... or crush the rights of the minority.

and at times we are all, the minority.

this action, promulgated by those who desire more censorship of the public discourse for moral or political reasons, will come back and bite us in the butt... and it will be far worse than some whack like howard losing six or seven stations.

Freerepublic narrowly missed being labelled by a government agency a hate site (san francisco? recently) had this been the clintong adminstraiton in power, it is likely Clintong would have backed that listing all the way to the first court that backed his evil agenda.

Freedom of speech is either for everybody, or nobody.
The one who regulates SPEECH rules the nation.