President says broadcasters should lose licenses for criticizing him

145 pointsposted 5 months ago
by perihelions

11 Comments

fred_is_fred

5 months ago

What happened to the party of Free Speech absolutism?

Edit: for those claiming this isn't a free speech issue the President is using the FCC to go after people he doesn't like. He must be a special snowflake.

ordinaryradical

5 months ago

Their speech was never in jeopardy, they just didn’t like its consequences. And now that they have the upper hand they will try to actively impose the same restrictions which they accused others of placing on them.

Victimhood distorts reality and leads to outsized reprisals.

klaff

5 months ago

It's the party of bad faith.

gridder

5 months ago

Double standard is the standard for those kinds of toxic people and their sycophants

FranzFerdiNaN

5 months ago

Free speech is for them not for you or me. Always has been.

endemic

5 months ago

every accusation is an admission

bilbo0s

5 months ago

In fairness, conservatives never said they supported free speech.

They said they wanted more promotion of conservative viewpoints.

Kind of a subtle, but important distinction there.

Neither liberals, nor conservatives support free speech.

LarsDu88

5 months ago

How many minutes before HN takes this one down? Seen at least 5 political posts get shut down today