"Freedom of the press" means the freedom to operate your own printing press. We're effectively doing that on this site right now.
I didn’t say we should abolish it. I said we need to rethink it. The ability of natural persons to speak is surely important. The ability of natural persons to debate ideas is important. The ability of natural persons to publicize information (i.e., “journalism”) is important. The same is not true of corporate persons, and we’re seeing what happens when we protect corporate speech the same as natural speech. Our speech rights are subsumed and subverted to theirs.
This is obviously a very thorny problem, and there is no easy solution. There may not be a practical way to distinguish corporate speech from natural speech. But we ought to at least try. This isn’t working.
TV/Radio media requires a license. It specifies the conditions under which they're allowed to use the airwaves. Spreading propaganda from a hostile foreign government is violation that merits yanking a license.
China was caught using Mexican transmitters to broadcast inside the US.
You're referring (I think) to
regulation of media broadcasts on public airwaves. That regulation doesn't apply to cable, satellite, internet, etc. But regardless of the medium, the MSM shouldn't be allowed to commit crimes under the pretext of journalism. Much of what the MSM does these days is arguably criminal, especially in those cases where the goal is not just to publicize information, but to bring about a desired outcome. So why is this allowed to happen? Our government has simply lost its backbone. Everyone who is in a position to go after the MSM is either afraid of them or allied with them.
Freedom of the press isnt the issue here. They'd LOVE for you to think that though.
What you see here is the same thing Null bitches about, anyone that goes against the narrative cant get funding to keep going. This exact situation is why payment processors should be agnostic, and why they piss themselves over cryptocurrency. Money is speech, after all, and these fuckwads control it via the banking institutions and by extension which platforms are allowed to exist.
No doubt about it,
they have effectively weaponized banking/funding, and they use it for all manner of anti-competitive and censorious malfeasance. The "money = speech" paradigm is one of the sharpest swords in the Big Business / Big Tech / GloboHomo arsenal.
But with respect to the MSM (the "fourth estate") in particular, we definitely have a "freedom of the press" problem. The MSM is the Globo/Zog attack dog, and the First Amendment hamstrings our ability to rein it in. Even if our enemies lost the ability to defund/deplatform, the MSM would still be fomenting unrest, dividing society, smearing our representatives, and laundering criminal activity.
And whether we're talking about offensive banking or free press, the the broader problem is that our Constitution protects our enemies more than it protects us.