<div dir="ltr">Howard Stern endured the same treatment from the FCC for years. This is why government should be scaled back, Trump is just the latest player to take advantage of the FCC's broad powers. I'm more concerned with the fact they're in the process of dismantling net neutrality and have already sold us out to the ISPs.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 11:56 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">FCC Chairman and <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Trump</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div> appointee Ajit Pai said yesterday that he was considering fining comedian Stephen Colbert<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> for telling a joke about Vladimir Putin and his sidekick Donald Trump. In light of this blatant attack on the first amendment I think CNN and MSNBC should change their policy and stop bleeping Trump whenever he uses words like "fuck" or "pussy", and that's a lot. I don't think it's right to edit somebody's remarks so that they sound better (or worse) than they really are, and it's certainly not right to do it for the most powerful man in the world. A</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">nd <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">besides, </div>it would be most amusing to watch the spectacle of The President Of The United States trying to put journalists in jail because they failed to censor The President Of The United States.</span></font><div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Fox news should change their policy about that too of course but they're a hopeless case.</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div></div></div>
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