A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America, the government funded broadcaster, at least temporarily. It’s a dramatic turn in a series of legal cases revolving around the limits of executive power and the strength of the Constitution’s protection of free speech.

  • chaotic_altruist@lemm.ee
    261·
    3 days ago

    This isn’t a dramatic turn, this barely counts as a road bump. We need a dramatic turn, but this ain’t it.

      • bdonvrA
        417·
        2 days ago

        No he shut down a propaganda outlet. I’m really not sure why he did but the world is better without VoA

        • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
          133·
          2 days ago

          It’s literally an anti fascism broadcast created after WW2 so they can disrupt the next potential dictatorship.

          So it makes sense he’d want it gone, but I’m not sure why you do.

          • bdonvrA
            41·
            2 days ago

            Whatever it may have been in WW2 you really think the US has been a global force against Fascism in the past 30 years? Lol.

            • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              2 days ago

              That is fair, but is it due to the VoA group? Perfect is the enemy of good. If VoA is doing some good, why shut it down? Unless the good that it’s doing potentially disrupts the bad things you want to do.