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Well, I'm sympathetic to where you're coming from, but this is muddled. "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" has been a cliche for a long, long
by _jal 7y ago
Well, I'm sympathetic to where you're coming from, but this is muddled.
"Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" has been a cliche for a long, long time, and while it is a little flip, there's a truth there. Your freedom of speech does not require me or anyone else to amplify it. Or even listen.
Put another way, do you believe you should be forced to tell other people my message? What about everyone else's?
- sjwright 7y agoWhat I will say is that both extremes are unworkable—from blanket bans to the authoritarian forcing of companies to publish poltical ads against their will. Everything was fine back when the newspapers had a healthy tension between revenues and credibility. And when the sheer quantity of advertising venues was small and the advertisements devoid of third-order ulterior motives. Until we can reign in the excesses of online advertising, it's more prudent to be cautious than dive further into the abyss.