"A plan to update the system for regulating our media content has been running under the radar for years. Some of the agencies that do it now backed the move to one single body, but this week the government dumped it over fears it could cramp free expression online."
Thoughts on this? My knee-jerk anarchist response is that democratic governance has no place in decisions about citizens' expression, online or otherwise. But...
... I'm aware that in a highly unequal capitalist society, the expressions of different people and organisations have very different scales of "reach". So maybe there is a place for regulation to create and maintain pro-democracy media environments. As always, the devil is in the details.
It sure seems to me that when organizations with unlimited amounts of money want to call for horrible things or support horrible things, there's absolutely no repercussions, but magically the government seem to be able to find all of the money and power to suppress speech when it's just some guy named George.
Maybe it's time to impose jail terms for state actors who violate civil rights?
Maybe it's time to impose jail terms for state actors who violate civil rights?
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