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Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses—the 1st Amendment might stop him
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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I love the way people think the Constitution matters any more.
The constitution is a piece of paper. Laws set and rights granted by the Constitution require people to actually enforce and uphold them. If there is nobody willing or able to enforce and uphold them, then it carries about as much weight and gravity as a mattress tag.
If Trump says he wants to revoke your broadcast license, and the FCC says it's going to revoke your broadcast license, and the Trump-friendly Supreme Court says they can revoke your broadcast license, then you don't have a broadcast license. Full stop. Sure, you can say you have 1st amendment protections, but if the people tasked with upholding those protections are falling in line behind Trump (spoiler alert: They are), then you might as well be preaching about your 1st amendment protections to pigeons in the park for all the good that's going to do for you.
Going the next step, FCC licenses only have as their paper. If people want to broadcast, the only thing stopping them will be their own grit against whatever the gov't wants to throw at them, be it a few lawyers or SWAT teams.
Even if the court says they can't revoke, the court has no power to stop them.
Sure they do. Once revoked they can keep broadcasting. They get fined... they take that to court. If the court doesn't uphold the fine, they don't have to pay it.
If the lawsuit is shit you must aquit.
The world would be a much better place if that (and the inverse) was true..