1. What if your cable company allowed someone to knowingly produce false reports about an emergency? Imagine if they gave a private party the power to run a fake emergency message. We had an erroneous imminent missile impact message a few years ago. What if Jeff Bazos
2. could buy the right to publish a message like that on TV and radio just to satisfy a twisted sense of humor? Does he have a right to do that? Does the cable company have the right to do it? Can they both be sued for agreement to it and do they have liability for the damages
3. it causes including emotional distress? I think the answer is they don't have the right to do it and yes they can be sued.

Public nuisance law already gives the government and public power to punish, through civil litigation conduct of that sort. What about the anti-vaxers?
4. When would their false claims cross the line and become a possible vector for a deadly pandemic causing harm like my fictitious example of Jeff Bezos' practical joke?

Imagine if @FoxNews allowed a claimed expert on to announce that everyone who received the J&J dose would
5. be dead in a week? Does anyone doubt that they would do it if they thought it would amplify the lies they are currently tasked with amplifying? What stops them? IMO it's because they would get sued and the Cable industry would be liable as joint tort-feasers.
6. When Russia's chaos agents like TFG and his GQP accomplices were permitted to spread political propaganda using the @rupertmurdoch @FoxNews lie machine we created the conditions for endless propaganda attacks by instigators like Murdoch, the GQP and its donor base.
7. Until we impose and unacceptable financial cost on this conduct it will only get worse. The Cable industry can force subscribers to subsidize what amounts to enemy-level propaganda. What can be done to stop it?
8. IMO @FoxNews is a public nuisance. The Cable industry that forces us to subsidize it is a joint tort-feaser and IMO a Sherman Act co-conspirator. Murdoch & TFG et al are similarly liable.

A divided Congress is unlikely to somehow magically become empowered and save us.
9. I remain hopeful but we need to prepare plan B.

I suggest we start noting each provable lie regarding vaccines that is being pushed by any private company, individual or members of state governments including Congress off the floor or outside committee.
10. Save the evidence and put the responsible parties on notice of the nuisance claim and set the stage to bring the GQP lie-monster to its knees. Fox and the GQP are a public nuisance and it's time they and their major stakeholders paid a price.

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