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‘It’s the First Amendment, stupid’: the bizarre fight between Trump and broadcast TV
It’s billionaire wishcasting — but with very high stakes.
Trump has been making threats like this since 2017, but in recent days he’s been joined by Elon Musk, David Sacks, and others who have picked up on the theme and started talking about how we should take the wireless spectrum back from TV networks and use it for other stuff. It feels to me like a bunch of billionaires are just not doing the reading and aren’t paying attention to how anything actually works, so I wanted Adi to help me create a framework to understand what’s going on. You’ll hear us get into a whole lot of prime Decoder territory on this one: we talk about the Fairness Doctrine, Section 230, monopolies, and of course, a landmark Supreme Court decision known as Red Lion.
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