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You're conflating cancel culture, done voluntarily by private companies, with censorship, with the federal government through the FCC is dictating the outcomes
by sylens 1y ago
You're conflating cancel culture, done voluntarily by private companies, with censorship, with the federal government through the FCC is dictating the outcomes of mergers and acquisitions based on compliance with speech restrictions.
- danielvaughn 1y agoThis isn't entirely true, as cancel culture was also prominent at public universities.
- christophilus 1y agoThe Biden administration had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter. This cancel culture— both from the right and left— sucks and should be fought.
- oenton 1y ago> The Biden administration had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter. This is categorically false. Are you referring to this story, where the Biden administration asked Facebook to take down Covid misinformation and "expressed a lot of frustration" when Zuckerberg told them no? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-some-covid-19-content-during-the-pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... If not, then where did you learn that the Biden administration "had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter"?
- reop2whiskey 1y agoplenty of evidence if you look http://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/weaponization-committee-exposes-biden-white-house-censorship-regime-new-report http://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/weaponizatio...
- mensetmanusman 1y agoPrivate companies were being pressured by government officials. That was already proven a few years ago. Also, Kimmel is a case of a private company canceling him the FCC didn’t force anything.
- Gud 1y agoThey don’t need to force anything, just make vague threats.