The tax code is not codified in the constitution - free speech and free press is. the only reason the fairness doctrine was ever constitutional was because the public airwaves were a limited resource. That limitation does not exist on cable TV or the internet, so you’re going to have a huge uphill battle through the courts to make a Neo-fairness-doctrine for cable or social media constitutional.
Further, social media crosses international borders, so it’s a lot more difficult to wrangle and regulate as opposed to networks firmly operating only inside the bounds of the continental US.
our main issue today is with 24/7 cable news and social media, neither of which were ever governed by the fairness doctrine.
That’s kind of like say because Reagan cut taxes on the rich back in the 1980s we can’t change those laws.
We’re never going back to the Cronkite Era but the FCC still does regulate cable TV.
The tax code is not codified in the constitution - free speech and free press is. the only reason the fairness doctrine was ever constitutional was because the public airwaves were a limited resource. That limitation does not exist on cable TV or the internet, so you’re going to have a huge uphill battle through the courts to make a Neo-fairness-doctrine for cable or social media constitutional.
Further, social media crosses international borders, so it’s a lot more difficult to wrangle and regulate as opposed to networks firmly operating only inside the bounds of the continental US.