RE: Damned Democunts
October 26, 2014 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2014 at 11:29 am by Brian37.)
(October 26, 2014 at 11:19 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: I don't like the proposal one bit. I don't see that expanding the government's control of speech is a good thing. The proposal is to control political content that is not even paid-for. It would be the equivalent of the Crown restricting Paine's ability to write pamphlets.
It doesn't help that the chairman's motivation is so transparently political in itself; this wasn't a problem until it impacted his boss. It appears that he's willing to encroach upon a right for partisan advantage, and I'm tired of that shit.
That is exactly what the SCOTUS did with Citizens United. It gave more power to those with money. That court under the republican majority has sided with big business the vast majority of the time for decades.
It is not protecting our country from monopolies it is allowing monopolies to grow.
If the republicans of that court were objective it would be much harder to predict their outcomes. They are unfortunately extremely predictable.
If someone wants to claim bigger government is the problem, then it is the lack of self introspection on the part of business that has bullied society which requires government to step in. The part the private sector always seems to forget, is that no one should claim that they should have no right to exist, but they keep forgetting that they are only one aspect of society. They'd find they would have a much easier time if they would provide instead of exploit and they would also find that they could do even better by doing that.
