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Moving two steps backward, the Counsil of Europe is making a law requiring all media outlets to allow the person(s) that were ciritized a 'right of reply'. This is truely absured given the nature of the internet. I guess it is a US thing for free speech.
Moving two steps backward, the Counsil of Europe is making a law requiring all media outlets to allow the person(s) that were ciritized a 'right of reply'. This is truely absured given the nature of the internet. I guess it is a US thing for free speech.
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The United States once had a similar rule, which applied only to broadcasters, called the Fairness Doctrine. In a 1969 a Supreme Court case called Red Lion v. Federal Communications Commission, the justices gave liberal author Fred Cook the right to reply to criticism from a conservative broadcaster on Pennsylvania radio station WGCB. Eventually, President Ronald Reagan nixed the idea in the mid-1980s, citing the First Amendment protection of freedom of speech and the rule's possible "chilling effect" on controversial speech. (When faced with the onerous requirement of providing a right to reply, many broadcasters shied away from anything controversial.)