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In reply to the discussion: Do you think the Biden administration should shut down Fox News? (poll) [View all]Ocelot II
(121,473 posts)on ideological grounds. Yes, there are exceptions to the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech - obscenity (time, place and manner restrictions), and speech that is both directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action per Brandenburg v. Ohio, and Virginia v. Black, statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals. There's also defamation and fraud. Fox was sued successfully for defamation, but none of these exceptions apply to shutting down an entire network.
Some future administration might be inclined to take MSNBC off the air for ideological reasons.