I don’t think anyone could argue successfully that the legal justification for the Fairness Doctrine, which is a restriction on first amendment rights, still holds. Channels and airwaves are no longer a limited resource, and no one needs an FCC license to broadcast to the whole world. That was actually the reason for ending it in the 1980s in the first place, because of cable and satellite TV, and the internet makes it even more true. Not gonna happen without a constitutional amendment or a very different Supreme Court.
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