Red Mosquito

Coach wrote:She did well and it was entertaining to watch.

doug rr wrote:I think Lenny went to school with her in Alabama ..she's a roll tider

In the rant — about a school shooting in Nashville, where a transgender man killed three children and three adults — Carlson warned about “trans terrorism,” saying Christans should prepare to be targeted for violence by the trans movement, a “deranged and demonic ideology.”

In the United States, with its strong First Amendment protections of free speech and weak broadcast regulation, Carlson’s rant was just another salvo in the culture war. But in Canada, it could have regulatory consequences, because Carlson attacked Egale, a Canadian LGBTQ organization, saying it was lying about violence against trans people, which it wasn’t.

A week after the broadcast, Egale sent a complaint to the CRTC — the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (Canada’s version of the Federal Communications Commission) — asking that it ban Fox News.

“To position trans people in existential opposition to Christianity is an incitement of violence against trans people that is plain to any viewer,” wrote Egale.

Egale has a case. Canadian law forbids broadcasting material that “is likely to expose an individual or a group or class of individuals to hatred or contempt.” Describing trans people as “demonic” would seem to qualify.

The regulator, which is run at arm’s length from the government, has banned other channels. Last March, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the CRTC announced that RT and RT France — which are controlled by the Russian government — could no longer be carried by Canadian cable outlets.

“Foreign channels can be removed from the authorized list should their programming not be consistent with the standards to which Canadian services are held,” said Ian Scott, who was then the chairperson of the regulator.

If that is the standard the CRTC uses, it would ban Fox. No Canadian broadcaster could get away with running a rant like the one Carlson did. The CRTC routinely acts with a heavier hand than the FCC, which has been restrained ever since 1985, when Ronald Reagan repealed the fairness doctrine. In June 2022, for example, CRTC ordered Radio-Canada, the French language branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, to apologize for even mentioning the N-word in a radio broadcast about a book important to Quebec nationalists.

Earlier this month, the CRTC agreed to consider Egale’s complaint. It opened a public consultation process that has so far collected 6,500 submissions from both people who want Fox banned to prevent it from spreading hate and Fox fans who would see a ban as an attack on freedom of expression.

elliseamos wrote:Opinions.

BurtReynolds wrote:There is nothing remotely sensible about it.

JuanHamm wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:There is nothing remotely sensible about it.

Would you at least acknowledge that it's hard to balance free speech with people's willingness to shamelessly lie, and the stupidity and lack of critical thinking skills of the general public?

BurtReynolds wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:There is nothing remotely sensible about it.

Would you at least acknowledge that it's hard to balance free speech with people's willingness to shamelessly lie, and the stupidity and lack of critical thinking skills of the general public?

No, not at all. There is no balance to be had. It should be weighted entirely on the side of free speech. If you don't have faith in humanity enough to let idiots and liars speak, then you are an authoritarian.

There isn't some ideal scenario where the state protects the marginal with censorship. Get that silly idea out of your head.

elliseamos wrote:This is about promotion, not speech.

If you want to hear what Tucker has to say, go get it yourself. He has the right to say it, I don't have to listen.

The state and its airwaves have no obligation to promote it. Nor should they decide that he can't say it. Which they're not. They're only saying they won't promote it.

Hence the company was found to have defamed another company and then he was fired.

elliseamos wrote:I don't think the state owns all the printing presses. Some are privately held.

elliseamos wrote:He has the right to say it, I don't have to listen.

elliseamos wrote: The state and its airwaves have no obligation to promote it.