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Trump floats stripping networks critical of him of their broadcast licenses (politico.com)
19 points by JumpCrisscross 19 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Discussion (93 points, 3 hours ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294199

Related Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses–the 1A might stop him (9 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451557

Few heeded Trump's call to challenge TV licenses (2017) https://web.archive.org/web/20171019082700/http://www.washin... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507866)


Yeah, it's not a Slippery Slope fallacy when the slope is indeed actually slippery, and many things are actively sliding down it at great distances and speeds, following trajectories we've seen over the decades of the same kind of objects going down the same kinds of surfaces.




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