Comparisons to totalitarian censorship exonerated broadcasters from regulation.

Evidence

Critics from the broadcast industry enlisted exonerative comparison in portraying the dangers of governmental regulation: “If the government does control these matters, the result will be like that in Hitler’s Germany”(Baldwin & Lewis, 1972). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 958

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 958
• XREF: connects to: Filtering fake news invites charges of censorship bias. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 232