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Douchebag Coalition Wants FCC to Regulate ‘Hate Speech’ in New Media

Posted on | June 1, 2010 | 15 Comments

We await the federal bureaucracy’s ruling on whether “douchebag” constitutes hate speech:

Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on “hate speech” and “misinformation” in media. “Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as ‘news’,” they wrote to the FCC . . .
As for the Internet, it “gives the illusion that news sources have increased, but in fact there are fewer journalists employed now than before,” they charge. “Moreover, on the Internet, speakers can hide in the cloak of anonymity, emboldened to say things that they may not say in the public eye.”
The groups who want this new proceeding include Free Press, the Media Access Project, Common Cause, the Prometheus Radio Project, and the League of United Latin American Citizens. Their statement, filed in the Commission’s Future of Media proceeding, comes in support of a petition to the agency submitted over a year ago by the National Hispanic Media Coalition.

They’re a bunch of douchebags. That’s a neutral, objective fact.

(Via Memeorandum.)

Category: Neutral Objective Journalism

Comments

15 Responses to “Douchebag Coalition Wants FCC to Regulate ‘Hate Speech’ in New Media”

  1. Joe
    June 1st, 2010 @ 7:20 pm

    If you need a word, mendoucheous works. mendacious + douche

  2. Joe
    June 1st, 2010 @ 2:20 pm

    If you need a word, mendoucheous works. mendacious + douche

  3. Wondering Jew
    June 1st, 2010 @ 8:05 pm

    This is so alarming. Free speech means nothing in this country anymore.

  4. Wondering Jew
    June 1st, 2010 @ 3:05 pm

    This is so alarming. Free speech means nothing in this country anymore.

  5. Jerry in Detroit
    June 1st, 2010 @ 8:17 pm

    The quote about anonymous writers is hilarious. I often write to the authors of news stories. I don’t always agree Bill McClellan at the St Louis and we often exchange views. The Associated Press carefully hides the identity of their writers and provides no avenue for writing to them. Worse yet, many of the names appear to be fabricated; as in there is nobody by that name in North America. Misinformation in Media? Start with AP.

  6. Jerry in Detroit
    June 1st, 2010 @ 3:17 pm

    The quote about anonymous writers is hilarious. I often write to the authors of news stories. I don’t always agree Bill McClellan at the St Louis and we often exchange views. The Associated Press carefully hides the identity of their writers and provides no avenue for writing to them. Worse yet, many of the names appear to be fabricated; as in there is nobody by that name in North America. Misinformation in Media? Start with AP.

  7. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 1st, 2010 @ 8:35 pm

    I would ask if these brain trusts had ever heard of Watchtower Bible & Tract Society v. City of Stratton, but that’s about as likely as Al Gore adding to the carbon footprint of his marital relations by bringing adult toys – or any effort – into the bedroom.

  8. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 1st, 2010 @ 3:35 pm

    I would ask if these brain trusts had ever heard of Watchtower Bible & Tract Society v. City of Stratton, but that’s about as likely as Al Gore adding to the carbon footprint of his marital relations by bringing adult toys – or any effort – into the bedroom.

  9. Rightwing Links (June 1, 2010)
    June 1st, 2010 @ 8:48 pm

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  10. Estragon
    June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:24 am

    Why, sure, the government should make sure everything on the internet is true, and eliminate all hate and bad feelings which are harmful to children and other living things on the Earth, which is part of The Environment.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Ah, the Left . . . those rascally little weasels, nothing wrong with them a good throttling wouldn’t improve significantly.

    They can have my keyboard when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers . . .

  11. Estragon
    June 2nd, 2010 @ 1:24 am

    Why, sure, the government should make sure everything on the internet is true, and eliminate all hate and bad feelings which are harmful to children and other living things on the Earth, which is part of The Environment.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Ah, the Left . . . those rascally little weasels, nothing wrong with them a good throttling wouldn’t improve significantly.

    They can have my keyboard when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers . . .

  12. Estragon
    June 2nd, 2010 @ 6:25 am

    Oh, and “Mendouchious” has the makings of a great horror movie. I’d shoot it myself, but it will have to be low-budget . . . if Nancy Pelosi is available, we can save a bundle on scary makeup . . .

  13. Estragon
    June 2nd, 2010 @ 1:25 am

    Oh, and “Mendouchious” has the makings of a great horror movie. I’d shoot it myself, but it will have to be low-budget . . . if Nancy Pelosi is available, we can save a bundle on scary makeup . . .

  14. Lipton T. Bagg
    June 2nd, 2010 @ 9:08 pm

    Here’s the dirty little secret these so-called “media coalitions” won’t tell you:

    Although these groups use “hate” and “rising crime against Hispanics” to push their cause, the truth is that most crime against a specific ethnicity occurs within that ethnic silo – meaning one group mostly commits violence on its own.

    This is most prevalently discussed in the case of “black on black” crimes but remains static across most ethnic groups. Simply, Hispanics tend to prey on other Hispanics, Asian groups on other Asians, and so on.

    Living where I do, we have a prevalent Asian populous, and Asian on Asian crime fills the daily blotters and news reports. As does Hispanic on Hispanic crime in a city near us – one of the most prominently Hispanic and gang-filled communities in California.

    Stifling the voice of others on the internet will not prevent this. It’s a cultural experience which many immigrants bring with them from abroad. But the best, first place for these Hispanic groups (and most other ethnic groups as well) need to go to reduce crime is within their own communities – not the internet.

    Of course, it need be said that much of our illegal alien population imports crime and hatred as well. But I suppose embracing that reality make me even more “racist”…

    The premise under which these groups seek to mute the people voice is wrong-minded and reeks of fascism, not the goal of reducing crime and hateful rhetoric. The REAL goal of course is preventing the free flow of truth and unfiltered information to everyone.

    Liberals can make their issues appear more viable if those darn facts didn’t get in the way.

    -LTB

  15. Lipton T. Bagg
    June 2nd, 2010 @ 4:08 pm

    Here’s the dirty little secret these so-called “media coalitions” won’t tell you:

    Although these groups use “hate” and “rising crime against Hispanics” to push their cause, the truth is that most crime against a specific ethnicity occurs within that ethnic silo – meaning one group mostly commits violence on its own.

    This is most prevalently discussed in the case of “black on black” crimes but remains static across most ethnic groups. Simply, Hispanics tend to prey on other Hispanics, Asian groups on other Asians, and so on.

    Living where I do, we have a prevalent Asian populous, and Asian on Asian crime fills the daily blotters and news reports. As does Hispanic on Hispanic crime in a city near us – one of the most prominently Hispanic and gang-filled communities in California.

    Stifling the voice of others on the internet will not prevent this. It’s a cultural experience which many immigrants bring with them from abroad. But the best, first place for these Hispanic groups (and most other ethnic groups as well) need to go to reduce crime is within their own communities – not the internet.

    Of course, it need be said that much of our illegal alien population imports crime and hatred as well. But I suppose embracing that reality make me even more “racist”…

    The premise under which these groups seek to mute the people voice is wrong-minded and reeks of fascism, not the goal of reducing crime and hateful rhetoric. The REAL goal of course is preventing the free flow of truth and unfiltered information to everyone.

    Liberals can make their issues appear more viable if those darn facts didn’t get in the way.

    -LTB