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How is supporting freedoms and free markets "subservience?" Freedom is literally the opposite of subservience. If a journalist, who is being paid to write, ha
by jongjong 2y ago
How is supporting freedoms and free markets "subservience?"
Freedom is literally the opposite of subservience.
If a journalist, who is being paid to write, has to withhold from expressing oppressive ideas in order to protect the freedoms of their readers, who are paying them to write, then that's a fair tradeoff.
Any furthering of 'altruistic' causes which requires the oppression of other people's freedoms is not worth it IMO.
- daveguy 2y agoFreedoms? Freedom to squash an opinion article? Snap out of it.
- jongjong 2y agoNothing wrong with that. Every other job requires that paid workers meet the requirements of their boss whom themselves must meet the requirements of their customers. Jeff Bezos is responding to his customers' requirements, so should the journalists who work for him. Journalists who work for these big media platforms can basically bypass the need to compete for attention on the global marketplace of ideas. This has allowed them to spread bad ideas and the scale of the platform means that the repercussions have had a delayed effect which Jeff Bezos is now trying to rectify.
- daveguy 2y agoCustomers are leaving in droves and he doesn't have to respond to customers because he is a billionaire oligarch. He can keep wapo around as a propaganda outlet. See also: twitter. Journalists have more integrity in one pinky than all the oligarchs combined.
- wwtw 2y agoThere is the label on the thing, and the thing itself. I like the label, like you do. I assume parent does not like the thing.