Better to revoke NBC's FCC licensing if they don't remove sharpton. Contributing to a hate monger and aiding in inciting violence.
Three posts later, still blind as a bat. Networks do not have "FCC licensing" any more than cable outlets do.
Broadcasters have FCC licensing. That means radio and television
stations. As in, on the
air.
And again, as we just said three posts ago, restricting somebody's ability to speak because you don't like what they say, is what we call "unconstitutional". That hasn't changed as three posts went by.
Nit picking. The networks rely on the subsidiary affiliates who are granted FCC licensing, the grace of the public. Fomenting violence is not free speech. Like shouting fire in a theater.
Then you would have to go after each individual TV station one by one. And before you do even the first one, you have to get rid of the First Amendment.
The FCC has never taken anybody's license away for concerns of content in its life. And that's the way it should be.
Besides which, even more basically, Al Sharpton is not on NBC. Hes on MSNBC, which is
cable. Therefore unless he goes to a broadcast interview or something,
he's not even on the air, which means he doesn't appear anywhere the FCC has jurisdiction.
But thanks for coming out with your views on free speech. Go forth and read the Constitutio
People need to meet requirements to be granted the privilege of licensing. That is not a free speech issue. It's not a right. That is precisely why licensing is necessary. You don't need a license to access human rights. Privileges that involve others require standards and rules.
Every subsidiary of the network can have its license revoked if that network doesn't comply with licensing requirements and the subsidiary acquiesces to the network.
Wrong, wrong, completely wrong. You don't have the foggiest idea what you're talking about.
FCC has no jurisdiction over a corporate entity. It licenses individual stations. And
the network has no license to revoke. A network is not a broadcast station. It does not need a license.
Nor can, or should, or has, the FCC ever revoked somebody's license (even if it actually did have one) because of something their
subsidiary did. That's absurd. Are you drunk?
Yes, stations need to meet requirements; those are that they're qualified to run a station and provide programming service "in the public interest, convenience and necessity". And that is obviously interpreted broadly.
All of which is moot, since as I just said again,
Al Sharpton is not on the air in the first place.