Re: Freedom of speech and how to dismantle Faux News

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This was in answer to cal04's thread about http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6479450">Freedom of Speech but I made a mistake and posted it as a thread instead of a reply when the cookies screwed it up.

Should we find a way to shut them up?

Yes, absolutely!

If they should be silenced how should it be done?

1st of all they should be forced to stop using their "Fair & Balanced" bullshit slogan. It's about time Faux were taken to court for http://www.answers.com/topic/false-advertising">false advertising regarding their repeated use of this bullshit mantra. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of clips on YouTube now proving how unfair and unbalanced Faux is. I know that MoveOn filed a http://cdn.moveon.org/content/pdfs/ftc_filing.pdf">complaint with the FTC several years ago but it obviously went unheard. http://civic.moveon.org/fox/">MoveOn's complaint form is still live, though, and there's more evidence than ever (O'Lielly, Hannity, Huckabee & Glenn BecKKK's hate/fearmongering seditious behaviour for example) that this far right propaganda channel is overstepping the boundaries it has set itself.

Faux's BULLSHIT "Fair and Balanced" slogan fits well within http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/guides/baitads-gd.htm">FTC's Guides Against Bait Advertising, too.

When that happens it'll create such a shitstorm against Faux that people might finally wake up to how much of a brainwashing Goebbels-esque propaganda machine it really is.

BTW I just found a very interesting post in Demopedia dating back to 2003 that has evidence proving that they have been doing this for years: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x844844

Another thing. If it's been amended in the past, why can't it be amended again? Adding that seditious propaganda and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation">disinformation should not be allowed, for example?

I have been having exactly the same thoughts recently, as I posted in the Jon Voight thread last week: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x362209#362449