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Emergency announcements or orders have to be temporary and limited in scope. They also couldn't target specific channels on talk radio just because they have a made up emergency.

Meanwhile the emergency broadcast rules that were created in early tv and radio era definitely don't apply to social media, given that they are discretionary, asynchronous forms of communication, and there's no lack of bandwidth as there was in the early tv and radio era.



Totally agree. Wouldn’t apply to cable tv for the same reason. Turner Broadcasting v fcc, 520 US 180 (1997).




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