FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“There is an effort around the country to try, through legal means—although we would consider illegal means—to curtail people’s fundamental First Amendment rights to gather together in the streets, to be able to speak out in unified action.”
It’s true the government didn’t make much of a case, and that the judge doesn’t seem to understand how the internet works; but the deeper truth may be that we need to fundamentally rethink our antitrust approaches to a media/tech industry that is every day more influential.
The issue isn’t “free speech” or the problems with “PC” online culture; it’s simply the pundit class protecting its own.
