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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 22, 2021 9:59:48 GMT -8
Another great article by Greenwald on the censorship movement. I've clipped out a few pieces from the article for the tldr crowd.
Instead, the key point raised by these last threats from House Democrats is an often-overlooked one: while the First Amendment does not apply to voluntary choices made by a private company about what speech to allow or prohibit, it does bar the U.S. Government from coercing or threatening such companies to censor. In other words, Congress violates the First Amendment when it attempts to require private companies to impose viewpoint-based speech restrictions which the government itself would be constitutionally barred from imposing.
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In a January Wall Street Journal op-ed, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Yale Law School’s constitutional scholar Jed Rubenfeld warned that Congress is rapidly approaching this constitutional boundary if it has not already transgressed it. “Using a combination of statutory inducements and regulatory threats,” the duo wrote, “Congress has co-opted Silicon Valley to do through the back door what government cannot directly accomplish under the Constitution.”
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Because “big tech has failed to acknowledge the role they’ve played in fomenting and elevating blatantly false information to its online audiences,” said the Committee Chairs again summoning the social media companies, “we must begin the work of changing incentives driving social media companies to allow and even promote misinformation and disinformation.”
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The power to control the flow of information and the boundaries of permissible speech is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. It is a power as intoxicating as it is menacing. When it comes to the internet, our primary means of communicating with one another, that power nominally rests in the hands of private corporations in Silicon Valley.
But increasingly, the Democratic-controlled government and their allies in the corporate media are realizing that they can indirectly and through coercion seize and wield that power for themselves. The First Amendment is implicated by these coercive actions as much as if Congress enacted laws explicitly mandating censorship of their political opponents.
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Post by barry on Feb 24, 2021 3:35:28 GMT -8
House Democrats push TV carriers to stop hosting Fox, OAN, and Newsmax, citing ‘misinformation’
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Post by TupennyConan on Feb 24, 2021 6:02:25 GMT -8
This is the predominant thinking & behavior over in the CGC WC COVID thread, particularly from the leading posters with high formal education.
It is stridently celebrated & zealously defended by the WC's intelligentsia.
If this sort of thing has infected the WC, of all places, then it's a pandemic.
The entire world will adopt the China model within 25 years or less. Endemic.
Only nuclear war will prevent China from owning the century.
One or the other.
The West immolates itself for its Original Sin.
Does anyone remember or care about the East's Sin?
From WIKI, we read about the important figure, intellect, & poet, Mao, murderer of 40-80 millions:
A controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important individuals in the twentieth century. He is also known as a political intellect, theorist, military strategist, and poet. During Mao's era, China was involved in the Korean War, the Sino-Soviet split, the Vietnam War, and the rise of Khmer Rouge. Mao has been credited with transforming China from a semicolony to a powerful sovereign state, and increased literacy and life expectancy, but also ruled an autocratic and totalitarian regime responsible for mass repression, as well as destruction of religious and cultural artifacts and sites. It was additionally responsible for vast numbers of deaths with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labour and mass executions.
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Post by TupennyConan on Feb 24, 2021 7:32:06 GMT -8
Regnant.
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 24, 2021 7:49:56 GMT -8
House Democrats push TV carriers to stop hosting Fox, OAN, and Newsmax, citing ‘misinformation’
This is the surreal world we live in.
There are fully documented, independently verifiable and objectively false news being pushed by both sides. You can find all sorts of false narratives created by the left media and now they are going to be arbiters of what is true?
Another fantastic Glen Greenwald article came out yesterday on exactly the same thing. If you don't subscribe to his newsletters you're missing out. He shows the hypocrisy of people calling out to shut down some news carriers just a few years after they stated that they were never do so.
We are literally headed into a dystopian fascist future if they are allowed to shut down news channels that they arbitrarily decide are not worthy.
Democrats' justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media -- "they are spreading fake news and inciting extremism" -- is what despots everywhere say.
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For the last four years, we were inundated with media messaging that Trump posed an unprecedented threat to press freedoms. The Washington Post even flamboyantly adopted a new motto to implicitly ratify that accusation (while claiming it was not Trump-specific). Other than the indictment of Julian Assange — which most Washington Democrats cheered — what did the Trump administration do in the way of attacking press freedoms that remotely compares to Democrats abusing their majoritarian power to force the removal of conservative cable outlets from the airwaves, just days after doing the same with dissident voices online?
There is not a peep of protest from any liberal journalists. Do any of the people who spent four years pretending to care so deeply about the vital role of press freedom have anything to say about this full frontal attack by the majority party in Washington on news outlets opposed to their political agenda and ideology?
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In a statement he emailed to me and publicly posted, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr denounced the Democrats’ actions as a “marked departure from First Amendment norms.” He said “it is a chilling transgression of the free speech rights that every media outlet in this country enjoys.” In response to my inquiries, Commissioner Carr added in a separate statement to me:
The greatest threat to free speech in America today is not any law passed by the government—the First Amendment stands as a strong bulwark against that form of censorship by state action. The threat comes in the form of legislating by letterhead. Politicians have realized that they can silence the speech of those with different political viewpoints by public bullying. The letter sent by two senior Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cable companies and other regulated entities, and the Committee’s own hearing this week on “disinformation in the media,” are the latest examples. They are singling out selected newsrooms for their coverage of political events and sending a clear message that these media outlets will pay a price if they do not align their viewpoints with Democrat orthodoxy. That is a chilling transgression of free speech and journalistic freedom. No government official has any business inquiring about the ‘moral principles’ that guide a private entity’s decision about what news to carry.
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 24, 2021 8:00:37 GMT -8
This is the predominant thinking & behavior over in the CGC WC COVID thread, particularly from the leading posters with high formal education. It is stridently celebrated & zealously defended by the WC's intelligentsia. If this sort of thing has infected the WC, of all places, then it's a pandemic. The entire world will adopt the China model within 25 years or less. Endemic. Only nuclear war will prevent China from owning the century. One or the other. The West immolates itself for its Original Sin. Does anyone remember or care about the East's Sin? From WIKI, we read about the important figure, intellect, & poet, Mao, murderer of 40-80 millions: A controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important individuals in the twentieth century. He is also known as a political intellect, theorist, military strategist, and poet. During Mao's era, China was involved in the Korean War, the Sino-Soviet split, the Vietnam War, and the rise of Khmer Rouge. Mao has been credited with transforming China from a semicolony to a powerful sovereign state, and increased literacy and life expectancy, but also ruled an autocratic and totalitarian regime responsible for mass repression, as well as destruction of religious and cultural artifacts and sites. It was additionally responsible for vast numbers of deaths with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labour and mass executions.Our government voted to decide whether China is currently committing genocide or not.
Trudeau has long been called a China sympathizer. This latest non-vote certainly doesn't help his PR
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Post by parker1865 on Feb 24, 2021 12:17:30 GMT -8
This is the predominant thinking & behavior over in the CGC WC COVID thread, particularly from the leading posters with high formal education. It is stridently celebrated & zealously defended by the WC's intelligentsia. If this sort of thing has infected the WC, of all places, then it's a pandemic. The entire world will adopt the China model within 25 years or less. Endemic. Only nuclear war will prevent China from owning the century. One or the other. The West immolates itself for its Original Sin. Does anyone remember or care about the East's Sin? From WIKI, we read about the important figure, intellect, & poet, Mao, murderer of 40-80 millions: A controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important individuals in the twentieth century. He is also known as a political intellect, theorist, military strategist, and poet. During Mao's era, China was involved in the Korean War, the Sino-Soviet split, the Vietnam War, and the rise of Khmer Rouge. Mao has been credited with transforming China from a semicolony to a powerful sovereign state, and increased literacy and life expectancy, but also ruled an autocratic and totalitarian regime responsible for mass repression, as well as destruction of religious and cultural artifacts and sites. It was additionally responsible for vast numbers of deaths with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labour and mass executions.I would only have 2 cents to add to this, and that is the the laughable description of what Mao was known for. I think somebody got Mao and Zhou Enlai confused. There was another, that we can not name, that Mao, lets say....objected to, in a very cruel manner. He could not get away with that tactic with Zhou. We need to remember where and what level of education Zhou received. |
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Post by TupennyConan on Feb 24, 2021 14:39:57 GMT -8
Everything is laughable, but for the easily foreseeable 21st century.
Once the west dismantles itself, there'll be no escape.
Turn on grandma & your neighbors if they're COVID infected & hugging one another?
Yes, that's our current training seminar, trial balloon, softening-up procedure.
The issue isn't today, it is tomorrow, which is just around the corner.
Enjoy kiddos.
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 24, 2021 20:04:56 GMT -8
Everything is laughable, but for the easily foreseeable 21st century. Once the west dismantles itself, there'll be no escape. Turn on grandma & your neighbors if they're COVID infected & hugging one another? Yes, that's our current training seminar, trial balloon, softening-up procedure. The issue isn't today, it is tomorrow, which is just around the corner. Enjoy kiddos. We're already there.
Question anything and you're a denier and likely put on a list somewhere.
But if you continue to question everything to it's core it takes on a very different picture than the general public sees.
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 25, 2021 10:22:53 GMT -8
A great article from last September (pre Trump / election blow up) on censorship.
Unfortunately, even proper, well thought out, useful and factually accurate information is being censored by big tech and in the end the inability to 'tangle' with opposing views hurts everyone.
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Post by parker1865 on Feb 25, 2021 16:44:52 GMT -8
OK. I think I have posted enough titillating stuff in the last 20 minutes or so, to draw in about 16 +/-more watchers from afar.
I have done my job for the evening.
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Post by vintagecomics on Mar 16, 2021 5:10:27 GMT -8
Another fantastic article by Glen Greenwald
A hearing of the House Subcommittee focused on anti-trust and monopoly abuses examines the role of the corporate media in these growing pathologies.
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Post by vintagecomics on Apr 11, 2021 14:25:11 GMT -8
The New York Times and other elite media outlets have openly embraced advocacy over reporting.
From the article:
During the 2016 presidential campaign, the Times stumbled onto a possible answer. It entailed a wrenching pivot from a journalism of fact to a “post-journalism” of opinion—a term coined, in his book of that title, by media scholar Andrey Mir. Rather than news, the paper began to sell what was, in effect, a creed, an agenda, to a congregation of like-minded souls. Post-journalism “mixes open ideological intentions with a hidden business necessity required for the media to survive,” Mir observes. The new business model required a new style of reporting. Its language aimed to commodify polarization and threat: journalists had to “scare the audience to make it donate.” At stake was survival in the digital storm.
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“The goal of post-journalism, according to media scholar Andrey Mir, is to ‘produce angry citizens.’”
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Post by vintagecomics on Apr 19, 2021 21:56:22 GMT -8
A spectacular and thorough article that I posted elsewhere on this forum about the gaslighting surrounding the Capitol Hill protests of Jan 6.
And the Officer Sicknick saga concludes with a coroner's report that states the cause of death being a stroke and of natural causes and NOT being bashed in the head from a fire extinguisher.
Will the NYT ever be held accountable for forming such a big lie that it led to the impeachment of a president and his being banned off of Twitter? Likely not.
Just as with the Russia Bounty debacle, they will never acknowledge what they did. Their audience wants to be lied to for partisan gain and emotional pleasure.
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Post by vintagecomics on Apr 20, 2021 16:32:09 GMT -8
I'm utterly shocked that a CNN director openly addmitted that his focus was to get Trump out of office.
I don't care what your political leanings are, the news should only be reporting the news and not reporting an agenda.
For all of the comments about Trump being 'fascist', NOTHING is more fascist than the media and politics aligning with each other. The average Joe should be terrified of this.
From the article:
CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester was caught admitting that CNN used their platform to help Joe Biden's presidential campaign, to the detriment of then President Donald Trump.
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