You say you want a revolution?
A revolution in this time has to go beyond military battles and political agendas to get to the heart of modern power, which is the power to control information. To say that the media has dropped the ball and has long since ceased functioning as the people's watchdog is the understatement of the age. Our system of government is based on having a free marketplace of ideas. When we were a young nation this just happened naturally. Anyone could start a paper, and if something sold, could make a living.
Truth be told, much of that free marketplace of ideas started eroding with the invention of the telegraph, but by the 1920's it was clear that any kind of free marketplace of ideas no longer held much sway over American political life. Today, a hundred years down the line, and the undeniable fact is that we do not have a free marketplace of ideas, and that has had a devastating effect on the American mind.
However, the remedy to the problems of the electronic media, with it's open political bias and with corporations using their internet power to stifle the wisdom of the people, is risky to even discuss. We certainly don't want the federal government to be in the business of regulating online content, and yet the dire threat posed by the corruption of the media drives us to do something.
Instead of going the way of big government control of speech, the revolutionary solution is to go in the opposite direction. Instead of trying to censor our way to truth, let us shine the light of freedom into the dark wasteland that is the media. Then, in the light of that true freedom, the people will find their way to the truth. Let us use the power of government to set up a true public forum. That way, at least at one point, the free voice of the people could be heard, and the free mind of the American people could be expressed. That is how best to seek the truth and that is how we can have a modern revolution. It is called:
The Open Media Amendment
The Open Media Amendment is a proposal to establish, via constitutional amendment, a national public forum on electronic media. No laws will be enacted on this forum, and no one will be elected to any office. The only purpose of this true public forum is that the voice of every person can be heard, and that the public gets to decide who gets more opportunities to be heard.
Two aspects of The Open Media ensure that it will be a true public forum. First of all, everyone will have an equal opportunity to participate (be heard and seen) on an unedited, uncontrolled live webstream forum. Second, everyone who is a part of the audience in that area gets to vote on the participants, and those participants who receive a majority vote get another opportunity to appear on the forum.
The national forum structure will resemble the structure of some mythical national high school basketball tournament. Local forums would have winners and losers. The losers go back in line, the winners get another chance on the live forum, with another vote. The one getting the most votes locally goes on to the state forum.
On the state forum the same rules hold. Winners get another chance, losers don't, and the one receiving the most votes goes to the national forum.
The national forum is where this could get truly revolutionary. Live, unedited and uncontrolled citizens addressing the entire nation, with the people as a whole deciding who gets more time on the forum.
That's the basic concept.
Obviously, it has to be established by ratifying a new amendment to our Constitution.
That would be the way to pay for it, which would not have to be exorbitant. Web sites for each locale with boilerplate software with which to administer the forums. The real cost would be the servers, but that would still be minimal.
The other reason The Open Media must be established by constitutional amendment is to provide an exemption, for those speaking on the forum, from libel and slander laws, much like members of congress have when they are speaking on the floor of the legislature. This is to ensure that the discussion is completely free, and therefore truth seeking.
In the end this would be the best use we could put our technology to. Ironically, even though folks will have to get dragged to it initially, the national forum will likely become the most popular show in history. Think of it. Kind of like American Idol and similar shows, only serious.. The idea is really quite simple:
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Amplify the free voice of the American people, and let the
free mind of the American people decide whose voice is further amplified.
If you want to learn more about
The Open Media Amendment
go to
https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-open-media-amendment.html?m=1
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