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by captain_price7 1994 days ago
> There is no more power to give

Ability to censor top level politicians, deciding what constitutes acceptable and what needs to be censored is not the kind of power they used to have.

Edit: bit clarification

2 comments

This isn't true. Private entities have never been required to distribute messages from US officials or politicians. I believe the only exceptions are certain emergency broadcasts.
I wasn't talking strictly about legal ability.
I'm not sure what you mean then. What power or abilities have changed?
They just did it so I think it certainly was.