Any good law firms out there that are willing to sue fox propaganda

[Beachnutt]

in a class action for damages to their family unit caused by intentional misinformation daily by fox calling itself a news network ?
Fox should be forced to play a disclaimer every hour to inform viewers that it is an entertainment network only and should not be relied on as a legitimate news source..

[Ocelot II]

1. No good law firm would touch that one.

[RKP5637]

2. In a really civilized country Fox would not exist. Other countries have kicked them out.

The US, just about anything goes, free speech. If Joseph Goebbels, wanted to do a full time hit on the US, FFS, he would probably have free rein. Fox seduces ill-equipped individuals and then they spread it with group think. Really, Fox is an invasive force tearing apart the US. I often think of Fox as a soft terrorist organization. The US is really headed in a downward tail spin especially with this damn SCOTUS, and I seriously doubt any of this is going to end well. ... more like a totalitarian country with a dystopian society.

[Beachnutt]

3. ☝️100% agree

[Ocelot II]

5. Do you have a problem with free speech?

Fox is awful, but do you think the government should be able to shut down offensive speech? Who decides what's offensive?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

6. Was about to ask the same thing n/t

[RKP5637]

8. Yes, in certain cases it should be shut down. At minimal, bring back the Fairness Doctrine. n/t

[SickOfTheOnePct]

9. Who gets to decide

When something should be shut down?

[RKP5637]

14. Check this out, FCC fairness doctrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

[Elessar Zappa]

16. The fairness doctrine only applied to broadcast waves, not cable.

[RKP5637]

19. Yes, quite true, it would need to be revised to be current. n/t

[SickOfTheOnePct]

17. Wouldn't apply to cable

Not to mention that the Fairness Doctrine didn’t regulate or suppress speech, which is what you’re asking for.

[RKP5637]

20. Yes, quite true, it would need to be revised to be current. n/t

[SickOfTheOnePct]

23. And you realize that under your plan

People who are now on Fox would be able to be on every other channel as well?

Or did you assume it would only go one way?

[RKP5637]

24. I don't have a plan. I am saying they should be held accountable, for example, for false

information. It is a mass media outlet and with that should go the responsibility of relatively accurate information. They say they're entertainment to skirt the issue, and that is BS.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

25. Free speech

Long May it live. I’m

[Whiskeytide]

11. What speech do you think Тяцмp's DOJ would have gone after? n/t

[RKP5637]

15. Check this out, FCC fairness doctrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

[Ocelot II]

18. The FCC's regulation of cable TV is limited to rate charges,

labeling of and advertising in children's programming, equal time and charges for paid political campaign advertising, and various technical matters. Otherwise it does not regulate cable tv programs' content, and the Fairness Doctrine, when it was in effect, only applied to broadcast licenses, not cable TV.

[RKP5637]

21. Yes, quite true, it would need to be revised to be current. n/t

[Zeitghost]

4. No

Probably because lawyers at any good law firm are familiar with the first amendment and free speech law.


You might be able to find a bad or dishonest one to take a retainer payment though.

[brooklynite]

7. No, because there's no legal basis for a suit.

Nothing obligates the media to be unbiased. That pesky 1st Amendment...

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. I'm always surprised

at some of the authoritarian tendencies around free speech here.

[Ocelot II]

12. Me, too. I guess it's OK to take an authoritarian attitude toward speech

as long as it's about suppressing someone else's speech. It would also be nice if people would read the damn Constitution once in awhile.

[Beachnutt]

22. Me too...

Why do they make certain companies post disclaimers on products that harm an individual ?
Fox is spreading false information that is harmful to people such as climate change etc...

[Elessar Zappa]

13. Free speech.