Christy Smith calls for Broadcast Censorship

Congressional candidate Christy Smith (Santa Clarita) called for bringing back the "Fairness Doctrine," a long-abandoned form of federal censorship. She claimed on Twitter, without any explanation, that "Restoring the Fairness Doctrine would save American lives."

The discredited doctrine had empowered the Federal Communications Commission to strip stations of their broadcast licenses based on how they presented the news. After years of First Amendment abuses, even the FCC concluded that the Fairness Doctrine “actually inhibits the presentation of controversial issues of public importance to the detriment of the public and in degradation of the editorial prerogative of broadcast journalists.”