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Squelching small players is the intent. Large institutions are easy to exert political control over. It's hard to exert political control over masses of indiv
by fallingknife 5y ago
Squelching small players is the intent. Large institutions are easy to exert political control over. It's hard to exert political control over masses of individuals. It benefits the Republican party when you get your news from FOX. It benefits the Democratic party when you get your news from CNN. It does not benefit the Democratic or Republican party when any individual can broadcast their views to millions of willing listeners on a platform like Youtube. This is why you only ever hear about "misinformation" coming from small time players. When CNN/FOX et al. do it (which is constantly), they get a free pass. Both parties share an interest in monopolizing information flow to their followers, which is why they both support this law.
- cossatot 5y agoFOX and CNN are constantly accused of spreading misinformation by huge swaths of the populace (but not necessarily the same swath for both networks).
- fallingknife 5y agoI'm talking about the specific swath of the populace that can get you banned from YouTube, FB, etc.
- hanniabu 5y agoAny examples of CNN misinformation? Not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just not aware of it. Meanwhile FOX misinformation is pretty well known.
- pksebben 5y agohttps://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/02/iraq.weapons/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/02/iraq.weapons/inde...
- fallingknife 5y agoRussiagate would be just one example. And of course when they said Joe Rogan was taking horse dewormer.