[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

it's an authoritarian battle over free speech. Soon the media landscape in America will be like Russia and thats not being alarmist

Our Federal institutions are political in nature and their policies are driven by the administrations they work under. Propaganda likes to talk of our institutions as supreme glorious entities of objectivity, but that's not true. Trump runs the Federal Govt, so there's no way around that. He gets at least some say in the agencies he overlooks by whom he appoints. Just as the past 3+ Presidents have tried pushing past the Legislative Branch with Executive Orders. (Edit: Modern Presidencies are fans of enacting through EOs and putting pressure on the Judicial Branch)

Neither of those issues are new and it became a problem as Congress started forfeiting their duties. Congress has the ability and the obligation to move things along with legislation and depressurize our political environment. Instead, they're keen to keep up the divisions and chat **** at cameras rather than make changes that would put more people at ease... now various branches have been getting directly more involved in the running of the individual States, which is also not how it's supposed to work. Frankly, I don't even think some of the people currently elected to serve know how the govt is meant to function, which is part of the problem.

The media is inflaming divisions and not being responsible with the people they're employing, but at the same time, there's not really much that can be done without legislation... the FCC is supposed to fill that role currently, so while that part is technically not wrong, that's a lot of power to be given to basically an un-elected agency.