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X media controlled by X doesn't mean other media is not accessible. I'm all for local media (of a significant size) not having foreign influence as long as you

X media controlled by X doesn't mean other media is not accessible. I'm all for local media (of a significant size) not having foreign influence as long as you can have access to foreign media. It's actually awesome to hear about your country from something quite remote, like for example Al Jazeera. It puts things in perspective.

smcin 3y ago
"X media controlled by [private companies based in] X" has obvious antipatterns too, it creates oligarchs and tests how pure govts are abut enforcing competition legislation viz. takeovers and monopolies, also some markets have less $ than others. Consider Rupert Murdoch of Fox/Sky started out as a newspaper baron in Australia in the 1960s, bought US and UK titles, took over the UK tabloid industry in the 1980s (without becoming a UK citizen) and in return sold media favors to govts from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, then became a US citizen in 1985 and expanded his empire to Fox/StarTV. Murdoch has been kingmaker for deciding who gets elected leader in multiple continents for 4+ decades now, also for selling the Iraq invasion to the US/UK/Australian publics. This is why media ownership legislation has to put limits on both foreign ownership and monopolies. It's interesting to watch FB deny the blatant reality that it's a media company not just a technology company [0], since to admit the obvious would trigger oversight. US Congress is dancing around eventually having to legislate for that, on FB, YT, TikTok, Twitter/X et al. [0]: "Is Facebook a Media Company? That's Not Up to Mark Zuckerberg" https://www.fromdayone.co/stories/2020/6/26/is-facebook-a-media-company-thats-not-up-to-mark-zuckerberg https://www.fromdayone.co/stories/2020/6/26/is-facebook-a-me...
blagie 3y ago
In the age of the internet, what's the difference between local media and foreign media? If I live in Boise, Idaho, and there is a Japanese media company reporting on Boise, Idaho new under boise-idaho-news.com, for anyone interested in Boise, Idaho... you catch my drift. Broadcast TV is going the way of the dinosaur. Something like an effective TikTok ban would presume a centralized firewall or ISP filtering or similar. As a footnote: A lot of my ideas here center on cash. I personally think of free speech as an individual right and not a corporate (or governmental / organizational) one. But I don't want to bias the discussion with my own ideas here.

smcin 3y ago

"X media controlled by [private companies based in] X" has obvious antipatterns too, it creates oligarchs and tests how pure govts are abut enforcing competition legislation viz. takeovers and monopolies, also some markets have less $ than others. Consider Rupert Murdoch of Fox/Sky started out as a newspaper baron in Australia in the 1960s, bought US and UK titles, took over the UK tabloid industry in the 1980s (without becoming a UK citizen) and in return sold media favors to govts from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, then became a US citizen in 1985 and expanded his empire to Fox/StarTV. Murdoch has been kingmaker for deciding who gets elected leader in multiple continents for 4+ decades now, also for selling the Iraq invasion to the US/UK/Australian publics. This is why media ownership legislation has to put limits on both foreign ownership and monopolies. It's interesting to watch FB deny the blatant reality that it's a media company not just a technology company [0], since to admit the obvious would trigger oversight. US Congress is dancing around eventually having to legislate for that, on FB, YT, TikTok, Twitter/X et al. [0]: "Is Facebook a Media Company? That's Not Up to Mark Zuckerberg" https://www.fromdayone.co/stories/2020/6/26/is-facebook-a-media-company-thats-not-up-to-mark-zuckerberg https://www.fromdayone.co/stories/2020/6/26/is-facebook-a-me...

blagie 3y ago

In the age of the internet, what's the difference between local media and foreign media? If I live in Boise, Idaho, and there is a Japanese media company reporting on Boise, Idaho new under boise-idaho-news.com, for anyone interested in Boise, Idaho... you catch my drift. Broadcast TV is going the way of the dinosaur. Something like an effective TikTok ban would presume a centralized firewall or ISP filtering or similar. As a footnote: A lot of my ideas here center on cash. I personally think of free speech as an individual right and not a corporate (or governmental / organizational) one. But I don't want to bias the discussion with my own ideas here.