@James: Folly because it clearly fails the first amendment, and is dead on arrival in the US.

Bwahhh ha ha ha! You think the Democrats care for one blinking second about the First Amendment? Or any OTHER Amendment? You gotta be kidding me.

I think the conjecture that O will avoid tackling the Fairness Doctrine is probably true, at least for a while. It would rile up the tattered remnants of conservatives, and why bother? Talk radio ranted and raved about O, as did the Interwebs, and he won handily. He’s got other fish to fry in the meanwhile, like ramming through Amnesty to ensure his re-election, and then re-re-election (Constitution? What Constitution?). And then there’s that little bit about taking control of large swaths of the economy.

Come to think of it, taking over the web is probably more important than squashing talk radio, because those guys generally just relate what they learn on the web to a larger audience. Kill the source.

As for working around web censorship with P2P or whatever, puh-lease. Most people can barely figure out their web browser.