Correct.
We don’t need a new Fairness Doctrine. We need to update FARA laws for the modern age. We need to teach media literacy. We need social media algorithm transparency. We need to ban microtargetting & funneling based on protected class status.
We need political advertising transparency on social media.
We need Google to give a fuck about its radicalization engine, aka YouTube.
We need consumers to realize they can call their cable company and say they don’t want to pay for Fox News anymore, and to cancel cable until
Fox is either made into a premium opt in channel, or the network can’t demand such high carriage fees from the cable companies, because the cable companies are losing business bec they pay Fox such high fees and consumers are sick of subsidizing propaganda.
Internal Revenue Service Agent Charged with Identity Theft and Wire Fraud
“Federal Agent Allegedly Misappropriated a Suspect’s Identity to Create False Identification Documents and Submitted Forged Documents to Purchase a Manhattan Co-op Apartment” justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/i…
“charging Bryan Cho, also known as “Yong Hee Cho,” with possession of a fake foreign passport; aggravated identity theft; making false statements during a background check and wire fraud in connection with the purchase of a side co-op apartment. “
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“Cho later made false statements during a background investigation, including denying that he possessed any foreign identification documents. Cho also denied any contacts with foreign officials even though law enforcement from the Republic of South Korea had...
California Man Charged With Making Threats Directed Against A New York City-Based U.S. Congressman And A Journalist, Citing Their Statements About The Results Of The 2020 Presidential Election
“ROBERT LEMKE was arrested today based on a criminal Complaint justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/c…
filed in Manhattan federal court charging LEMKE with making threatening interstate communications. LEMKE allegedly sent threatening text messages on January 6, 2021 to family members of a NYC-based U.S. Congressman and a NYC-based family member of a journalist.”
Re: Fairness Doctrine. 1) We need to update the Foreign Agents Registration Act (I recommend quarterly disclosures, not semi-annual, and harsher fines/sentences for violations) 2) we need massive personal data privacy legislation, along the lines of HIPAA, + limits
on microtargetting/funneling based on protected class status
(How do you think trump 2016 campaign suppressed so many votes by POC? Microtargetting that’s how) 3) we need to legislate algorithm transparency and enhanced political advertisement transparency from social media
companies 4) we need to require anything claiming to be disseminating “news,” whether print, TV, radio, or internet, to clearly label opinion content vs straight news content. Advertising must be flagged as advertising content.
In summary: We don’t need to reinstate the...