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U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
- bediger4000 1y ago[flagged]
- mdhb 1y agoAny minute now… they are nothing if not consistent and just fighting for their legitimately held beliefs without fear or favor. Edit: it seems those brave defenders of free speech somehow got confused and flagged the post instead once again. Funny how that keeps happening.
- rolph 1y agoif a camera wont point at protestors, then they will have to take protest to the camera, tossing things, at a location that is on camera. to censor that event, you will have to cut the feed of the target.
- frumplestlatz 1y agoOr they just maintain physical security and quickly remove anyone attempting to disrupt their sporting event.
- rolph 1y agoa really strong spiral goes about 75 yards, so that distance should be enforced as minimum. water bottles or frisbees or other such things should probably be prohibited. a decent seasrch for rocks loose concrete or hardware should be made of the venue. pocket drones should be way out of bounds, lasers or flash photo equipment that makes it akward to appear on camera , as well.
- frumplestlatz 1y agoWhat’s the relation between this and free speech? It’s a sports broadcast, they are liable for their editorial choices, and they make no claim to anything resembling the protections traditionally afforded common carriers.
- boothby 1y ago"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Banning the press from reporting on facts is, in fact, a dire infringement of our rights.
- frumplestlatz 1y agoThe U.S. Open is a sporting event, not a governmental organization, and anyone broadcasting the event is licensing it from the US Tennis Association. If the USTA or this event in any way resembled a common carrier, there might still be a free speech argument to be made, but they obviously don’t. They’re just producing a tennis event.
- quesera 1y ago... and the US Open is not Congress. Although, I would absolutely consider making that trade, if it were offered.
- robocat 1y agoThe US Open is [edited] run by a nonprofit, the United States Tennis Association (USTA). Was Congress involved?
- bediger4000 1y agoThere were any amount of accusations of censorship ca 2020-21 when Twitter, a private company, chose to enforce terms of service and throw folks off for COVID-19 disinformation. I assume those same absolutists, who insisted that Twitter was censoring someone, will come down hard on the US Open for more overt, more specific censorship.
- lenerdenator 1y agoIt's amazing how many people are willing to just fold, and I include myself.
- ourmandave 1y agoAre they banning cell phones and cameras at the gate?
- jmclnx 1y agoWell I guess I will not tune in.
- emorning4 1y ago[dead]
- xrd 1y agoI'm frantically searching for tickets. I'm going to add $10 to my budget for the T-shirt I'm going to wear.
- AaronAPU 1y agoIt is categorically insane to think a professional broadcast is obligated to air whatever nonsense you manage to inject in front of their cameras.
- pupppet 1y agoCan you imagine if NASCAR had censored the F Joe Biden chants?
- TrnsltLife 1y agoThe quick-thinking reporter misreported/right-thinked it to "Let's Go Brandon" on the fly, so there was nothing to censor. The American people have always loved Joe Biden. The American people will always love Joe Biden.
- jleyank 1y agoGuess there’s no international feed? They have to control the only feed if they’re going to try and sanitize things. And keep all smart phones off line.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 1y agoAll the smart phones are run by two companies who are now pro-Trump. So they just run AI on your phone to detect any forbidden video and delete at the source. (*PS, I don't think this is actually happening, yet...)