At last, ABC and its parent company Disney finally grew a spine and stopped caving in to the corrupt bullies at the FCC (I'm particularly looking at you, Brendan). They should have learned their lesson when they were ordered by the FCC thugs to suspend Jimmy Kimmel that going along to get along is not good for business. It was reported that 1.7 to 3 million subscribers cancelled Disney+, Hulu and EPSN+ Disney and stock fell $3.87 to $4.4 billion in market capitalization.
Whether its the First Amendment or The Benjamins, it was high time this behemoth started flexing its muscles.
I wonder when the Federal Corruption Commission will begin investigating what Mary Trump calls "Fox State TV" and other right wing media.
Sadly, the FCC has no power over FoxProp, as they are not a legitimate broadcaster. Because they are a cable disinformation network, they, like OAN, Russia1/RT/TENET, NewzMux and other propaganda sewerpipes do not fall under the FCC's public airwaves purview.
Once Americans are back in control of our government, however, we CAN improve schools and teach critical thinking, press Republicans to convert to being Americans and following our Constitution and laws (yes, they will have to give up their pedo habit; but with American universal healthcare they can get the counseling they need to stop doing pedo and start HELPING America for a change), and making societal changes like "Making Bigotry Un-American Again": this will lessen the demand for Nazi/Klan sewerpipes like FoxProp and other Republican/Trump/PedoCult propaganda networks.
As a viewer of WPVI, Channel 6 News in Philadelphia, I am furious that Carr and the rest of the felon’s lackeys feel they have the right to oppose the First Amendment rights of a television station.
Fox “News” has been broadcasting lies and disinformation for years, and no one has tried to censor them, even though they repeat the lies of the felon.
Sadly, the FCC has no role with FoxProp and other cable disinformation-spewing podcasters: FCC only regulates the airwaves where radio and television are broadcast in a specific and regulated bandwidth.
The DEI argument should also get addressed. That BS interpretation the adminstration uses is so weak it deserves to be slapped down hard. In a multiracial country such as ours, a business that intends to cater to all of the market can reasonably desire to have those diverse faces and viewpoints represented but internally and outward facing.
To punish Disney for business practices intended to grow their market share, is downright communist. It violates not only the foundation of capitalissm but also free speech and most every other kind of freedom you want. The fact that the DEI laws were explicitely created to acheive that same goal means that the distorted view of this administration is due for a beatdown.
Trump and Carr apparently have no clue (or just don't care) that our Constitution was deliberately designed to promote diversity in multiple respects. James Madison (repeatedly) made that point explicitly. In Federalist 10, for example, Madison expressly emphasized the vital importance of preserving the “diversity in the faculties of” diverse peoples. “The diversity in the faculties of [people] from which the rights of property originate, is” an “insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. [Even so, t]he protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
Madison was rightly lauded as the Father of the Constitution and the Father of the Bill of Rights. He wrote many of the Federalist Papers to explain our Constitution to convince people to support its ratification. Madison directly explained that diversity was crucial to the strength of our Constitution and the strength of our nation.
Many people opposed our Constitution and opposed creating one nation out of the very diverse peoples of the 13 then-independent nations that became one nation with the ratification of the Constitution. So in Federalist No. 10 (https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493273), Madison explained and emphasized that our Constitution was designed to provide “a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government.” Such diseases include “faction,” which can easily result in a “tyranny of the majority,” as Tocqueville put it in his book “Democracy In America.”
Madison highlighted how factions divide people in a manner that presents an existential danger. Many people invoke “the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions” precisely “to kindle [the most] unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.” Anything “interesting to the human passions” can be “inflamed” to make people “much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.” So our Constitution was designed “[t]o secure the public good and private rights against the danger of [any] faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government.” Those were the obvious, vital and overarching purposes of our Constitution. As a result, Madison emphasized that "the first object of government" is the "protection" of “[t]he diversity in the faculties of [people] from which the rights of property originate.”
In Federalist No. 51 (https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-51-60#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493427), Madison directly and expressly emphasized that diversity in society is one of the essential sources of the strength of our union. Diversity helps secure justice, safety and security. Madison emphasized (repeatedly) that “Justice is the end [i.e., the ultimate goal] of government.” Madison even provided examples. Diversity is essential to the security of “civil rights” and “religious rights.” Our security is promoted by promoting our diversity.
“It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure. There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.”
The act of “creating a will in the community independent of the majority” is what the People did by writing and ratifying our Constitution. The First Amendment and the prohibition on religious tests in Article VI and the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments and the many ways that our Constitution included states and preserved the power of the people of individual states were expressly directed at using our Constitution to secure and promote diversity and inclusion (and thereby promote equity/justice).
The second method, above (“comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable”) is diversity and inclusion. That was the primary principle underlying the 1st, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments Each such amendment clarified or changed the meaning of the expression “We the People” at the beginning of our Constitution.
In Federalist No. 51 Madison directly highlighted the importance of diversity of society to the strength of our Union and our Constitution: “Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity [diversity] of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity [diversity] of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number [diversity] of interests and sects; and this [diversity] may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of people comprehended under the same government.”
Disney is worth nearly 185 billion dollars. Trump, approximately 2 billion. My advice for Brendan Carr---ask Ron DeSantis what happens when you attack the Mouse.
At last, ABC and its parent company Disney finally grew a spine and stopped caving in to the corrupt bullies at the FCC (I'm particularly looking at you, Brendan). They should have learned their lesson when they were ordered by the FCC thugs to suspend Jimmy Kimmel that going along to get along is not good for business. It was reported that 1.7 to 3 million subscribers cancelled Disney+, Hulu and EPSN+ Disney and stock fell $3.87 to $4.4 billion in market capitalization.
Whether its the First Amendment or The Benjamins, it was high time this behemoth started flexing its muscles.
I wonder when the Federal Corruption Commission will begin investigating what Mary Trump calls "Fox State TV" and other right wing media.
Sadly, the FCC has no power over FoxProp, as they are not a legitimate broadcaster. Because they are a cable disinformation network, they, like OAN, Russia1/RT/TENET, NewzMux and other propaganda sewerpipes do not fall under the FCC's public airwaves purview.
Once Americans are back in control of our government, however, we CAN improve schools and teach critical thinking, press Republicans to convert to being Americans and following our Constitution and laws (yes, they will have to give up their pedo habit; but with American universal healthcare they can get the counseling they need to stop doing pedo and start HELPING America for a change), and making societal changes like "Making Bigotry Un-American Again": this will lessen the demand for Nazi/Klan sewerpipes like FoxProp and other Republican/Trump/PedoCult propaganda networks.
Too bad the Fox State TV deplorables can't be disciplined by the FCC or some other federal agency. A plague on all of them.
Let's hope that Dems winning the midterms will bring about all of things you describe. The very survival of the nation and the planet depend on it.
As a viewer of WPVI, Channel 6 News in Philadelphia, I am furious that Carr and the rest of the felon’s lackeys feel they have the right to oppose the First Amendment rights of a television station.
Fox “News” has been broadcasting lies and disinformation for years, and no one has tried to censor them, even though they repeat the lies of the felon.
Sadly, the FCC has no role with FoxProp and other cable disinformation-spewing podcasters: FCC only regulates the airwaves where radio and television are broadcast in a specific and regulated bandwidth.
I weep no bitter tears! The man incapable of love cannot demand love … and that world in which he imagines himself beloved, is purely a fantasy one.
The DEI argument should also get addressed. That BS interpretation the adminstration uses is so weak it deserves to be slapped down hard. In a multiracial country such as ours, a business that intends to cater to all of the market can reasonably desire to have those diverse faces and viewpoints represented but internally and outward facing.
To punish Disney for business practices intended to grow their market share, is downright communist. It violates not only the foundation of capitalissm but also free speech and most every other kind of freedom you want. The fact that the DEI laws were explicitely created to acheive that same goal means that the distorted view of this administration is due for a beatdown.
Belatedly, the Big Boys are awakening to the emperor’s empty closet.
Trump and Carr apparently have no clue (or just don't care) that our Constitution was deliberately designed to promote diversity in multiple respects. James Madison (repeatedly) made that point explicitly. In Federalist 10, for example, Madison expressly emphasized the vital importance of preserving the “diversity in the faculties of” diverse peoples. “The diversity in the faculties of [people] from which the rights of property originate, is” an “insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. [Even so, t]he protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
Madison was rightly lauded as the Father of the Constitution and the Father of the Bill of Rights. He wrote many of the Federalist Papers to explain our Constitution to convince people to support its ratification. Madison directly explained that diversity was crucial to the strength of our Constitution and the strength of our nation.
Many people opposed our Constitution and opposed creating one nation out of the very diverse peoples of the 13 then-independent nations that became one nation with the ratification of the Constitution. So in Federalist No. 10 (https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493273), Madison explained and emphasized that our Constitution was designed to provide “a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government.” Such diseases include “faction,” which can easily result in a “tyranny of the majority,” as Tocqueville put it in his book “Democracy In America.”
Madison highlighted how factions divide people in a manner that presents an existential danger. Many people invoke “the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions” precisely “to kindle [the most] unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.” Anything “interesting to the human passions” can be “inflamed” to make people “much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.” So our Constitution was designed “[t]o secure the public good and private rights against the danger of [any] faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government.” Those were the obvious, vital and overarching purposes of our Constitution. As a result, Madison emphasized that "the first object of government" is the "protection" of “[t]he diversity in the faculties of [people] from which the rights of property originate.”
In Federalist No. 51 (https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-51-60#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493427), Madison directly and expressly emphasized that diversity in society is one of the essential sources of the strength of our union. Diversity helps secure justice, safety and security. Madison emphasized (repeatedly) that “Justice is the end [i.e., the ultimate goal] of government.” Madison even provided examples. Diversity is essential to the security of “civil rights” and “religious rights.” Our security is promoted by promoting our diversity.
“It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure. There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.”
The act of “creating a will in the community independent of the majority” is what the People did by writing and ratifying our Constitution. The First Amendment and the prohibition on religious tests in Article VI and the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments and the many ways that our Constitution included states and preserved the power of the people of individual states were expressly directed at using our Constitution to secure and promote diversity and inclusion (and thereby promote equity/justice).
The second method, above (“comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable”) is diversity and inclusion. That was the primary principle underlying the 1st, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments Each such amendment clarified or changed the meaning of the expression “We the People” at the beginning of our Constitution.
In Federalist No. 51 Madison directly highlighted the importance of diversity of society to the strength of our Union and our Constitution: “Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity [diversity] of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity [diversity] of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number [diversity] of interests and sects; and this [diversity] may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of people comprehended under the same government.”
Disney is worth nearly 185 billion dollars. Trump, approximately 2 billion. My advice for Brendan Carr---ask Ron DeSantis what happens when you attack the Mouse.