The original 1948 law allowed US propaganda to be used overseas via Voice of America, movie production and other means. It was strictly forbidden for the US Government to use propaganda on the American people domestically.
In 2012, the "Modernization" of this law was signed by Obama and it "legally" allows the US Government to propagandise Americans.
I put legally in quotes because I believe this Modernization of the law is Unconstitutional.
In 2013, Congress abolished the domestic dissemination ban. Check your terminology. It doesn’t allow it, it just doesn’t expressly forbid it anymore. Such distinction is important in understanding legal law fare.
Congress stripped the Smith–Mundt Act of all meaningful restrictions on the domestic dissemination of government-produced programming, imparting the State Department and the BBG with enormous power to anonymously disseminate their programming within the United States.
The original 1948 law allowed US propaganda to be used overseas via Voice of America, movie production and other means. It was strictly forbidden for the US Government to use propaganda on the American people domestically.
In 2012, the "Modernization" of this law was signed by Obama and it "legally" allows the US Government to propagandise Americans.
I put legally in quotes because I believe this Modernization of the law is Unconstitutional.
In 2013, Congress abolished the domestic dissemination ban. Check your terminology. It doesn’t allow it, it just doesn’t expressly forbid it anymore. Such distinction is important in understanding legal law fare.
Okay, thank you. Please share your sauce if you don't mind. I appreciate it.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=nulr
I hope you read it and understand it.
Thank you. I am pretty sure I understand it.