#1. First "they" came for public broadcasting.
NO! - first Public Broadcasting itself came for and took away the ability and right of the taxpaying public to comment directly via public comments on NPR and PBS news articles. They wanted the public muzzled and taxpayers paying, because they wanted total editorial control. They wanted to end populism and public voice after Trump was first elected. They were always biased politically.
They ended public engagement. They wanted public to pay but they took away the right of public to comment just like most of the leftwing MSM (NYT, Advance Publications, Huffington, Local news, WAPO etc.
See NPR article "A year after NPR ends commenting, no plans to revive it - AUGUST 24, 2017 BY Elizabeth Jensen" public commenting was a fixture since 2008.
Too bad Democrats have never learned anything about DOJ/Judicial independence.