MiddleAgesModem

they are all in banking’s pocket.

The fastest way to render your point invalid.

The shibboleth in question

No, it's not. Free speech protects what you say from the government, not your employer. Your employer ALSO has free speech, meaning they can decide what can and can't be said on their property.

This is like saying Sesame Street doesn't show hardcore porn and that's a violation of free speech.

Oh so the thing that HASN'T HAPPENED is your counterargument?

Name it.

"Free speech" doesn't entitle you to dictate policy over privately held companies. We spent four years trying to convince Trumpers of this. Be smarter.

Why is this downvoted? It correctly point out what "free speech" actually means.

Wrong. It opposed Naziism and Soviet Union misinformation. Since then it's been a standard journalism outlet that, by law, could not be dictated by US politicians.

While being the biggest pusher of propaganda in US history.

And VOA was only "propaganda" when you consider objective information to be "propaganda", like dumbfuck Trumpers do.

Since 1976 the Charter and later the 1994 International Broadcasting Act legally forbid government officials from dictating content. Don't worry about facts, though.

Trump himself tried to make it a propaganda outlet, doing the exact opposite of what you credit him for. He put Michael Pack in charge who sidelined editors, froze visas for foreign reporters and scrapped long‑standing “fire‑wall” rules that protect editorial independence.

Piss poor response. If you're too immature to admit being wrong, that's on you, don't put it on us.