Yesterday NBC News, the employer of Brian Williams and former employer of Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, and Chris Matthews, revealed that it has an obscure self-described “verification unit” that appointed itself to police American political discourse, and initially reported that Zero Hedge and the Federalist had been banned from generating revenue through widely used Google Ads, deeming their content to be racist. The report characterized those sites as “far-right,” even though the Federalist publishes a variety of right-of-center viewpoints and Zero Hedge is an idiosyncratic libertarian-leaning financial and market news site.
NBC Appoints Itself Internet-Speech Arbiter
By Jim Geraghty
June 17, 2020 9:39 AM
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-...tent=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first
By Jim Geraghty
June 17, 2020 9:39 AM
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-...tent=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first
NBC is not the only one:
Basically, government liars had to do something about freedom of speech on social media. It served no purpose to blackout stories the public has no business learning about when social media craps on television’s wall of silence. It is social media that forced MSM liars to find a way to continue reaping the benefits lying by omission always provided. Single Topic News is a conspiracy media liars are engaging in to solve their problem.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...e-Topic-News-Conspiracy&p=3547294#post3547294
The Internet is television’s nemesis.
B.T. (Before Television) print press controlled everything the public heard about the federal government. Print press began losing control of public discourse on the day a television set appeared in every home. Social media is doing the same thing to television’s control —— as well as threatening T.V. with the loss of billions of tax deductible advertising dollars. (Print press never came close to billions every year.)
NOTE: Tucker Carlson standing up for Social Media in the lion’s den deserves a lot of credit, while the man he replaced on the coveted 8:00 pm time slot, Bill O’Reilly, repeatedly blamed the Internet for all of society’s ills. That should tell you everything you have to know about O’Reilly. In short: O’Reilly topped himself since television did more harm to this country from within than all of its enemies can do if they ever find a way to attack freedom of speech militarily.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...A-Death-On-The-Internet&p=2754345#post2754345
Issues evolve. Opinions change. Loyalty to one’s income is changeless.
Google stepping on the old school tie prompted Carlson to defend his income and television’s revenues. His monologue on the 16[SUP]th[/SUP] was pure doublespeak blaming social media platforms for committing a sin more painful than the death of a thousand cuts:
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https://video.foxnews.com/v/6164690710001?playlist_id=5198073478001#sp=show-clips
Regardless of which institution practices censorship, I oppose censorship of every kind. In simple terms, I distrust Big Tech, but I distrust people like Republican Senator Josh Hawley a lot more than I distrust Google. Why? you may ask. Answer: Because Hawley’s game is working toward television regaining complete control of public discourse.
While Hawley goes toe to toe against a giant with more money than the federal government, he comes across as an unswerving defender of the First Amendment. Hawley’s horseshit works wonders with conservative voters at reelection time.
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit Coogle became my search engine after AOL began charging a fee. (AOL does not charge for its email service.)
I use Google for research to prop up my fading memory. I know nothing else about Google. So I do not know how serious the Google kerfuffle is since censorship began in earnest with the invention of the printing press.
The written word was not the beginning of censorship. Ruling classes censored the spoken word thousands of years before the printing press came along. Indeed, politically INCORRECT speech is nothing more than censorship enforced by the first government and every government that followed the first one. (I dare you to name one institution that does not engage in censorship to some degree.)
You might say that Grand Inquisitor Torquemada censored heretics for uttering incorrect speech is not much different than the censorship Communist and Muslim theologies employ today.
NOTE: Television has always been an instrument of government propaganda. It does not take a political genius to see that reining in the Internet strengthens the government’s control over free Americans. Also note that Republicans worked hand in glove with Democrats from day one of the LBJ years. Between establishment Republican and freedom-hating Democrats they created a welfare state and a burgeoning Parasite Class.
I do know that television’s decision makers are searching for a villain worse than television. Their search is an exercise in futility. Combine every enemy of free speech, and you will see that the harm they do collectively amounts to .0001 percent of the harm television does every day.
p.s If the topic of censorship interests you see this thread for more of my observations about censorship:
Russian readers had a long love affair with censorship. Stalin censored every novel except Jack London’s The Iron Heel. That was the only novel by an American author that Stalin allowed in Communist libraries. Among Old Joe’s other records he still holds the record for the most novels censored, and look what happened to the Soviet Union.
Censorship bit Soviet Communists on the ass when they locked up dissident authors. Years later the Kremlin admitted they would have let their dissidents emigrate to the West a lot sooner had they known that nobody in America cared what dissidents said.
Censorship bit Soviet Communists on the ass when they locked up dissident authors. Years later the Kremlin admitted they would have let their dissidents emigrate to the West a lot sooner had they known that nobody in America cared what dissidents said.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...ocialism%92s-Libraries!&p=2873962#post2873962