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More Advertisers Drop Beck

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Mostly sane, most of the time.9/03/2009 1:30:52 pm PDT

re: #77 drcordell

Taking away someone’s nationally televised platform for hate speech isn’t “silencing” them. Beck is free to say whatever he wants to say. But he isn’t free to have a nationally televised hate speech hour. Taking away his megaphone isn’t silencing him. It’s simply relegating him to Free Republic where he belongs.

I’m very sorry, but I disagree. The only organization, governmental or non, with the right to take Beck off of his program is Foxnews.

The government does not regulate political content. It does regulate obscenity, so if Beck gets nekkid or brings on nekkid people, they can act. Otherwise, as long as Foxnews is willing, he can broadcast.

(Full disclosure: I don’t own a television, so I can’t watch.)