OK. This might be hard. You know how the FCC can fine someone on radio or TV for obscenity or for a wardrobe malfunction? This applies to the public airways—broadcast radio and TV. Here’s the idea: Extend this to cable and internet (that alone would require some heavy lifting), but instead of obscenity, the rule covers lying. Not opinion, of course. Actual lying.
And not the first time the lie is told. In fact, the lie would have to be proven to be a lie, just like they determine perjury in a court of law. Then, the person or news organization that told the lie would be put on notice. Only then would people or organizations be subject to sanctions, for telling or writing the same lie after being put on notice.
Again, this is not about expressing hateful or crazy opinions. This is America, after all! No, it has to be a lie that has been adjudicated as a lie in a court of law that is not given some ironic 1984 kind of name, like The Truth Court.
Say, oh—I don’t know—President Trump says something like, “No president has passed more laws than I have in the first two years of his presidency.” Anyone can call the FCC and lodge a complaint. The FCC then presents the complaint to an adjudicative body comprised of three judges appointed by Republicans and three judges appointed by Democrats. If a majority determines that the statement is untrue, the FCC can warn the president. And if he tweets or tells the same lie again on TV or radio or to a newspaper, he can be fined up to $10,000, or 15 percent of his net worth.
How ’bout it, everybody?
The FCC truth has a in advertising, rule but that rule does not apply to politicians. This probably will never change so long as the peasants are complacent. I have to wonder if the FCC do the right thing if there is an uprising by the peasants and some radio and television stations are burned to the ground.
Dec 10, 2015 — (7) for willful or repeated failure to allow reasonable access to or to permit ... [political advertising on non-commercial broadcast stations]. Federal Communications Commission Rules (Title 47 Code of Federal Regulations).Missing:
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lying Sep 10, 2020 — The FCC has a different standard for ads from third-party or political ... Campaign Practices Act makes lying in a political ad a misdemeanor.
Nov 6, 2019 — The laws exist to protect consumers, and they give the FTC wide latitude to regulate. ... But the airwaves — where political ads run — are not exactly the ... and why FOX News and MSNBC were allowed to choose to air it.
The FCC requires commercial broadcast stations to provide ... CNN's Brian Stelter breaks down why this ...Sep 6, 2020
Dec 20, 2019 — The New York Times reported last month that political campaigns were ... protested the ad, the FCC ruled that refusing to air political ads would ... outlets allows for “the press, fact-checkers and political opponents” to view and ...
Jun 3, 2004 — Politicians still can lie legally, and the high volume of ads expected in ... In a 1972 case, the Federal Communications Commission forced ... Rejecting a candidate's ad because it's false is simply not allowed. ... more damage from a presidential candidate lying about his opponent than from a bogus psychic.
Oct 9, 2019 — Facebook's new rules let politicians lie in their ads. ... But like Facebook, the FTCalso declines to weigh in on the truth of political advertising.
Jan 31, 2012 — The FCC has even been told by the Courts that it can't allow stations to channel upsetting political ads (like those anti-abortion ads that Mr.
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