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Originally Posted by Ahldagor
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Get off your high horse. That precedent has been a practice for over a century. The press, media, or whatever label you wish to apply has cooperated or not with government entities based on what they perceive to be in their best interest. FDR asked the Holocaust to be suppressed in order to stymie entry into WW2, the US wasn't ready early on. Spanish-American War was propagated by Hurst because we needed oil, Carribean, and Pacific territory (The Phillipines). Learn some fucking history, ya moran. Corporate censorship is nothing new. Hell, Little Richard wasn't the voice on his early recordings because you couldn't have a black man riling up white kids to move their hips in suggestive ways. Again, learn some history. You're dumber than Mick with this bullshit.
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Corporate censorship is not new, what you have people asking is
TODAY, do we as a society want them to
STOP doing it?
Like, in the past you had barrier of entry to get on the TV, now anyone can (because the internet is now the TV) and we're seeing more rampant examples of corporate censorship, because there are moe people with access to post on "television" from their bedrooms.
We are also changing the conversation today, vs in the 1960s, because now corporate censorship is hitting something that up until the last 10 years, has been a FREE place where there WAS no censorship, beyond people getting arrested if they posted kid porn on the internet.
But yea, its the fact that this area WAS free of corporate censorship, and now the corporations have taken it over and the censorship hits people more directly.
NOW
nobody who has half a brain and says, "its wrong that alex jones was shut down off youtube" is saying that the 1st amendment should protect him from that! or that it does in any way shape or form.
WHAT they are saying is, SHOULD we be OK with corperations doing this?
SHOULD we want corperations to make decisions about what is in our best interest? DO we want to tell them to STOP?
We have seen the decline in the press, we have seen the decline in the news paper, we have seen the decline in access to geninuine news, and we have seen an increase in free news.
The results, bother people sure, but the problem is, the media DUMBED itself down, to compete with the free media... and now because they couldnt compete, they are SHUTTING the free media down, so they can have control of it again.
ITS PERFECTLY acceptable to ask society, DO WE WANT people to be silenced because we disagree with them?
DO WE WANT society as a whole, philosophicallyl TO SHUT DOWN the speech of people we disagree with?
THERE IS NOTHING constitutionally that protects you from a private person shutting down your speech on their private platform. HOWEVER its perfectly acceptable for us to ask society, philisophically, ARE WE FAILING to protect our OWN rights to free speech?
When someone says, the first amendment! when theyre talking about this shit, theyre saying "IF OUR GOD DAMN COUNTRY wanted the right to free speech, shouldnt WE AS INDIVIDUALS support it in our day to day life, instead of fight against it?!"
its a simple philisophical question, that you should ask yourself.
ANd if you think that they SHOULD be shut down...
WELL.. then you have to
accept that innocent people are going to get shut down with them hence INCEST-PEDOgate.. So far James Gunn lost his job because of society not accepting speech from people they dont like, it just turns out in this case it was comedy.
Alex
jones
IS
COMEDY
It's just comedy for people you libtards dont like, so you think it shouldnt exist.
If he is shut down, so should the Daily Show and John Oliver.