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Turbineguy

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9. I think it would be better to boycott

Reply to Kajun Gal (Original post)

Mon Dec 18, 2017, 08:20 PM

Dec 2017

sponsors. However, many also advertise elsewhere. Of course, if Fox fails to bring in business.... Using law enforcement to go after them only confirms their paranoid viewers' worst fears.

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When will the FBI, FCC, CIA or SOMEBODY go after FOX news? [View all] Kajun Gal Dec 2017 OP

Until we defeat them, we will never heal. n/t rainin Dec 2017 #1

I'm not a lawyer, but isn't Fox inciting insurrection? Chasstev365 Dec 2017 #2

The crime of incitement no longer exists. There is a federal law called The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #5

It's all protected by the First Amendment, as it should be. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #3

Neva Corvo Bianco Dec 2017 #4

It would be A REALLY BAD IDEA for the FBI FCC or CIA to "go after" any news organization. Voltaire2 Dec 2017 #6

Fox is NOT a news organization world wide wally Dec 2017 #14

Regardless of your opinion, it remains fully protected by the 1st amendment. Voltaire2 Dec 2017 #16

Not Trump world wide wally Dec 2017 #21

I'm very glad that your power extends Codeine Dec 2017 #23

Limits on hate speech is a bad idea? world wide wally Dec 2017 #24

Yes. A thousand times yes. Codeine Dec 2017 #25

England and Canada seem to be doing quite well with that law world wide wally Dec 2017 #36

We have a different philosophy toward speech. Codeine Dec 2017 #38

Not opinion tazkcmo Dec 2017 #29

Well tRump bdamomma Dec 2017 #31

Not Only Is that UN-Constitutional Ccarmona Dec 2017 #7

Mmmmhmmm bathroommonkey76 Dec 2017 #10

The CIA has no authority to bring charges against a US news organization ClarendonDem Dec 2017 #11

You said the "CIA has no domestic authority..." bathroommonkey76 Dec 2017 #13

I didn't claim the CIA acts in ways it isn't authorized to ClarendonDem Dec 2017 #15

Your first post was vague bathroommonkey76 Dec 2017 #17

The first post wasn't me ClarendonDem Dec 2017 #18

Well, the first person didn't know what he/she was talking about bathroommonkey76 Dec 2017 #19

You're confusing "domestic authority" Codeine Dec 2017 #26

Not if its one of those cars that locks the morons inside the car bathroommonkey76 Dec 2017 #28

I'd watch that. nt Codeine Dec 2017 #32

But on a serious note bathroommonkey76 Dec 2017 #37

Didn't we just buy Fox? ileus Dec 2017 #8

The news and sports divisions Codeine Dec 2017 #27

I think it would be better to boycott Turbineguy Dec 2017 #9

Spreading lie, hate and propaganda ClarendonDem Dec 2017 #12

When we embrace government run censorship? o_0 Terry_M Dec 2017 #20

Skinner should require that prospective posters Codeine Dec 2017 #22

The basics, stuff like this, used to be taught in middle school civics class. procon Dec 2017 #33

fox subversive authoritarian propoganda network democratisphere Dec 2017 #30

They should at least change their name to FOX Talk Show? Kajun Gal Dec 2017 #34

Y'all are right about the free speech amendment but Kajun Gal Dec 2017 #35