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Food for thought. This is a reaction against: 1. The overly-broad application of the First Amendment to conservative SCOTUS decisions giving corporations 1A ri

Food for thought. This is a reaction against: 1. The overly-broad application of the First Amendment to conservative SCOTUS decisions giving corporations 1A rights. 2. The financial success of propaganda corporations such as Fox News, and their poisoning of public discourse. 3. The weakening of democratic institutions and the ability for people to govern themselves as they choose Given that, is it any surprise that people are lashing out? MTG gets softball 60 Minutes segments. Perhaps people are coming to understand that this isn’t a viable way forward.

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TinkersW 4y ago
60 minutes wasting time on MTG just means you shouldn't watch 60 minutes, not that free speech needs to be abandoned. Fox started the problem with our news, but now we have similiar outlets on both left and right doing it. Don't watch them.
pessimizer 4y ago
It can't be a reaction to those things, because they're 1) arguing that private companies arbitrarily deciding what they want to allow on their platform, even under direct request from government departments and powerful individuals, is actually good and needed to protect minorities. 2) They also defend one set of "propaganda corporations" from the other set of "propaganda corporations"; they don't rail against extremely partisan coverage, they have come to consider it a patriotic duty to even suppress true information that would give the opposition ammo. 3) They support the FBI and the CIA over Congress and the democratic process. Democratic processes are ridiculed as "popularity contests." They support US military interventions and sanctions regimes abroad against democratically elected leaders.
chr1 4y ago
Or maybe most people like silencing those with whom they disagree, so the same type of people who were becoming religious zealots before, and were against frrespeach, are becoming other types of zealots now who are still against free speech.
- revscat 4y ago
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  - Georgelemental 4y ago
    If you don't believe you can share a country with millions of your fellow citizens, that the disagreement is not reconcilable—you are free to leave.

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TinkersW 4y ago

60 minutes wasting time on MTG just means you shouldn't watch 60 minutes, not that free speech needs to be abandoned. Fox started the problem with our news, but now we have similiar outlets on both left and right doing it. Don't watch them.

pessimizer 4y ago

It can't be a reaction to those things, because they're 1) arguing that private companies arbitrarily deciding what they want to allow on their platform, even under direct request from government departments and powerful individuals, is actually good and needed to protect minorities. 2) They also defend one set of "propaganda corporations" from the other set of "propaganda corporations"; they don't rail against extremely partisan coverage, they have come to consider it a patriotic duty to even suppress true information that would give the opposition ammo. 3) They support the FBI and the CIA over Congress and the democratic process. Democratic processes are ridiculed as "popularity contests." They support US military interventions and sanctions regimes abroad against democratically elected leaders.

chr1 4y ago

Or maybe most people like silencing those with whom they disagree, so the same type of people who were becoming religious zealots before, and were against frrespeach, are becoming other types of zealots now who are still against free speech.

revscat 4y ago
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- Georgelemental 4y ago
  If you don't believe you can share a country with millions of your fellow citizens, that the disagreement is not reconcilable—you are free to leave.