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I'm curious how, from a logically consistent conservative viewpoint this can be 'fixed' The ideas that spring to mind fly smack in the face of conservative ide

I'm curious how, from a logically consistent conservative viewpoint this can be 'fixed' The ideas that spring to mind fly smack in the face of conservative ideology - Private companies are allowed to hire who they wish. In our capitalist world the free market would provide for "conservative alternatives" and it does ("truth social" versus twitter for instance) - Mandating some kind of 'quota' for conservative employees to be hired seems to fly in the face of the premise of businesses being freed from regulation and intervention by the government - Free speech protects against the government intruding on it, conservative speech included. Extending this to private companies would be a disastrous overreach of unchecked legal power - Algorithmically "forcing" conservative views would be seen as censorship of otherwise organic views. Conservatives claim (rightly or wrongly) the opposite happens, so logically they would be upset if the opposite were to happen It seems like the only truly reasonable path is to expect "conservatives" to build their own platforms. Cater to their own audiences. If they are as large a group as they say they are, then the people who execute on this would become the barons of conservative thought and economics

fareesh 4y ago
I don't think it's a problem that needs fixing. I think of it like this - Twitter labels accounts that are Russian government accounts so that the public is aware of where the information they are seeing is coming from. That same benefit in the context of misinformation / selective publishing would go to the public if it was known that companies lean a certain way. For example the public knows that Fox leans right and MSNBC leans left.
- IntelMiner 4y ago
  The media doesn't "lean left or right" for the most part. The media acts as a magnifying glass to foment public opinion. The father of modern journalism Walter Lippmann penned a book about this very thing literally 100 years ago (also it's in the public domain now, it's a great read!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) To even imply MSNBC is "left leaning" is absolutely hilarious however. Though I suppose people so easily forget their Nazi comparison of Bernie Sanders https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-03-03/ty-article/msnbc-anchor-retires-after-sanders-nazi-analogy-sparks-controversy/0000017f-f3fe-d887-a7ff-fbfeec130000 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-03-03/ty-article/msnbc-...
  - fareesh 4y ago
    If I were to rephrase it to be more accurate and replace left and right to mean Democrat and Republican respectively, would that clarify what I mean?
    - IntelMiner 4y ago
      With the overton window of the United States that's effectively "fascist" and "oligarchy"

fareesh 4y ago

I don't think it's a problem that needs fixing. I think of it like this - Twitter labels accounts that are Russian government accounts so that the public is aware of where the information they are seeing is coming from. That same benefit in the context of misinformation / selective publishing would go to the public if it was known that companies lean a certain way. For example the public knows that Fox leans right and MSNBC leans left.

IntelMiner 4y ago
The media doesn't "lean left or right" for the most part. The media acts as a magnifying glass to foment public opinion. The father of modern journalism Walter Lippmann penned a book about this very thing literally 100 years ago (also it's in the public domain now, it's a great read!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) To even imply MSNBC is "left leaning" is absolutely hilarious however. Though I suppose people so easily forget their Nazi comparison of Bernie Sanders https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-03-03/ty-article/msnbc-anchor-retires-after-sanders-nazi-analogy-sparks-controversy/0000017f-f3fe-d887-a7ff-fbfeec130000 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-03-03/ty-article/msnbc-...
- fareesh 4y ago
  If I were to rephrase it to be more accurate and replace left and right to mean Democrat and Republican respectively, would that clarify what I mean?
  - IntelMiner 4y ago
    With the overton window of the United States that's effectively "fascist" and "oligarchy"