A Fairness Doctrine for the Internet
18 October 2007The perversely named Fairness Doctrine,
which threatened licensed broadcasters with fines if they didn’t
“afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting
views,” as the government defined it, has shown up in the news again
recently, as federal lawmakers and liberal media activists have called
for increased regulation of a media marketplace that they feel is
spinning out of their control. But the push to reimpose the
doctrine—which the Reagan administration abandoned in the late 1980s as
obsolete and harmful to free speech—may be mostly a diversionary
tactic. The Left has a much bigger target in its regulatory crosshairs: the Internet.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-10-18at.html
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FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content
McDowell warns reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites.
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.”
http://www.businessandmedia.org/prin...812160747.aspx
Subject: the "FAIRNESS" doctrine could regulate the internet 
Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:34 pm
