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Comment Re:Not sure how I feel about this (Score 1) 116

My argument, in this case, is that I don't agree with your certainty about what "Twitter would be OK with" in a case that you made up -- and certainly details of the case would matter -- but you've already decided what that would be, and are taking this thing that you've imagined would happen as evidence.

(Also, Twitter is millions of people, and somebody on there will be found to agree with any position you name, but I don't think that's central to my point.)

Comment Re:Like US cable bundles (Score 1) 62

What governments in the US, state, federal, local, require you to host PBS?

All of them (assuming "you" are a cable operator), although the same rules apply to all local channels as well:

https://www.fcc.gov/media/cabl...

Alternatively, local commercial and noncommercial television broadcast stations may require a cable operator serving the same market to carry their signals. This demand for carriage is commonly referred to as "must-carry."

Comment Re:Like US cable bundles (Score 1) 62

non-Russian speaking Americans likely won't go looking for the Russian state-owned television content.

No, that's a separate channel -- the Russian-propaganda English language channel RT is available on DIRECTV, Dish, and as a channel on Roku, in addition to a few local cable systems:

https://www.rt.com/where-to-wa...

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