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And then the white house threatened the network into silencing Maher and removing him from the airwaves, right? Famously, we never heard from Maher again. This
by idiotsecant 1y ago
And then the white house threatened the network into silencing Maher and removing him from the airwaves, right? Famously, we never heard from Maher again.
This is a transparent and frankly heavy handed attempt to build some false equivalency between actual destruction of freedom of speech and a politician who didn't like some particular speech, but didn't ban it (which is how it's supposed to work, by the way)
- ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 1y agoI mean, it forced him into a more filtered channel (paid subscriptions, not basic cable, etc), and he probably would have never landed in today's media ecosystem.