Return of the "Fairness Doctrine" could affect blogs

There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content policy.”

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with bloggers at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. McDowell spoke about a recent FCC vote to bar Comcast from engaging in certain Internet practices – expanding the federal agency’s oversight of Internet networks.

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At that point why have a blog? The entire purpose of maintaining one is for me to pour out my innermost thoughts and feelings, shallow as they may be, and inflict them upon the masses. Well if two readers can be called a mass. I guess if they were both really fat they could be massive and I could abbreviate that to mass but I digress.

Are people, yes I am looking at you Pelosi and Reid, really so insecure in their ideas that they need to control access to other peoples? Stupid question I know. Of course they are, and this is just one more area in which the liberal argument that conservatives are fundamentalist fascists falls down.

One of the hallmarks of any totalitarian state is a restriction on the dissemination of information. Look who is advocating the restrictions here. It isn't the conservative right it's the left.

And why? It isn't because they aren't winning elections. The fairness doctrine was repealed in 1987 since it was the Democrats have had the majority in both houses of congress for 11 years, in at least one house for 13 years and heald the Presidency for 8 years. I guess that just isn't enough for them. What they are really after os complete domination of the realm of ideas. We have seen this numerous times before and it always occurs when the leaders are setting about to create a utopian / perfect society thru the force of their ideas. Usually it is followed quickly be reeducation camps.