[snitty]

I, too, remember when Obama has the FCC commissioner threaten to revoke broadcast licenses for the coverage of his tan suit.

This type of both-sides-ism is dumb, especially here when one side is using the power of the federal government to get dissenting voices taken off the air.

[arp242]

I see this "high-ranking elected officials" vs. "A few anonymous nobodies on Reddit and Twitter (now Bluesky I guess)" type of false equivalence all the time.

[asdff]

About a dozen times in this very thread alone, so far in my scrolling.

[nobody9999]

>I, too, remember when Obama has the FCC commissioner threaten to revoke broadcast licenses for the coverage of his tan suit.

I can't find any specific references to that. Is there a statement from an FCC commissioner or from Obama when he was president?

I'd really like to see such statements.

[dzhiurgis]

Source for this?

[themaninthedark]

In the 2019 through at least 2022, Government agencies were "recommending" and "cautioning" social media companies on topics such as COVID and stories about laptops.

[snitty]

Two things here.

1. Trump was president in 2019 and 2020.

2. There is an important difference between a bureaucrat calling up someone at Facebook at arguing a position about policy and the chair of the FCC threatening to remove broadcast licenses. Notable, Supreme Court has even weighed in on the former and found it well within the rights of the government to do.