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disclaimer: I am not American, and know nothing about American politics. I think all these start around Trump's administration. Trump start calling some media/
by j16sdiz 5y ago
disclaimer: I am not American, and know nothing about American politics.
I think all these start around Trump's administration. Trump start calling some media/social media as fake news, and some media/social media start censoring his supporter.
After seeing the worse effects of misleading information, many free-speech-supporter back off alot.
- nyokodo 5y ago> Trump...misleading information...free-speech-supporter back off alot. Trump is a correlation to (not cause of) both the left and right in America turning sharply populist and inward looking in recent years. Populists tend not to be concerned with principles like freedom of speech, or the concerns of the global community.
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- mantas 5y ago> After seeing the worse effects of misleading information, many free-speech-supporter back off alot. Rather democracy supporters back off…
- zdragnar 5y agoNah, there was a noticable shift already in the later Obama years, if not earlier. It is ironic that we should trust government to be an arbiter of truth, given that our government has been a source of "misinformation" for years (a.k.a. blatantly lying to support an agenda).
- iso1210 5y agoMcCarthyism predates Trump, and I'm sure that social pressures of what you can and can't say in public date back far further