Back in 2022, when Musk was buying Twitter and the Biden administration was asking social media companies to moderate potentially harmful medical misinformation, it felt like every third comment here was someone hollering about free-speech absolutism. Where did all those people go?
After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View
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#12While I don't much care for either Kimmel nor The View - this is ridiculously corrupt, authoritarian, thuggish, illegal and arrogant behavior and cannot be allowed to stand.
And shame on Disney for caving. Cowards who kneel down to kiss the ring in the face of blatantly illegal threats are not worthy of a position of public trust. And over a merger no less.
I can't think of a better moral justification to prevent a corporation from owning a bigger slice of the ecosystem than to know that said corporation will dispense of any and all integrity they may yet possess to do it.
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#13Off to the USSR we go unless Congress gets brave. Sadly I told people who came here from the USSR where I use to work 40 years ago we were heading towards being the USSR, but a bit different. They said "no way", well here we are, well on our way. Just a different flavor of the same type of thing.
I get multiple news notifications within minutes of all these things, that’s pretty different than unfettered authoritarianism where people don’t even know it’s happening.
If everyone is aware of what’s going on and we still elect these people, that’s more on us than them no?
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#14I'm not a US citizen so take what I write below with a grain of salt.
I always thought the US to be a stronghold of democracy and free speech. I know, it's a naive view and we know how huge companies and corrupt politicians can subvert the system. But still, I thought it had a decent law system that, although imperfect like any other system, kept things from going back to the dark ages.
I don't believe that anymore after what I've seen this year. A few individuals can completely takeover the government, keep committing bigger and bigger crimes and nothing happens. All they get is outrage on social media, which they are happy to shrug off.
I know democracy and free speech are fragile things and we have to be constantly watching but I didn't imagine it would be this ephemeral in the US.
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#15I'm sure there's some Republicans on HN. I'm curious why/if you think that, if the public pressuring companies to fire people for some things (what some people call "cancelling") is wrong, it's somehow more appropriate for the government to do it? Or is this just a matter of, "well, they did it for years, now it's our turn" for you? (If you don't actually support this party, consider refraining from sharing your opin…
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#17Time to toss symbols and words. When everyone is the same thing that everyone's accusing one another of being, then signaling is done. We've reached the symbolic impasse that arbitrariness only enforces.
There's nothing coherent statement-wise coming out of the political leadership of all parties. That explains everything. No one is communicating. The news says nothing. All that matters is actions. And without a system of explanation for those actions, the species is dead.
Listen to the experts:
“...by getting rid of the clumsy symbols ‘round which we are fighting, we might bring the fight to an end.” Henri Bergson Time and Free Will
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less," said Humpty-Dumpty. "The question is whether you can make the words mean so many different things," Alice says. "The question is which is to be master—that is all," he replies. Lewis Carroll
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” Philip K. Dick
Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View
#18It actually sickens me how many people that supposedly cared about liberty just completely switched their schtick overnight. I'm not surprised that some of these people were two faced liars, I'm just surprised by the sheer scale and the shamelessness of it. It's like I'm living in a world surrounded by aliens.
Re: After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View
#19ABC is owned by Disney, which owns many subsidiaries. The one thing they and their shareholders care about is cold, hard cash. If you don't agree with what they're doing, then consider speaking the loudest way you can, with your wallet.
Disney owns:
- Hulu
- Disney+
- ESPN+
- National Geographic
- Pixar
- Marvel
- A whole lot more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_the_Wa...
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We also found out that Kimmel was planning a second attack on MAGA when the executives at ABC were already on-edge about the timing causing a backlash; simultaneously when Kimmel's ratings have dropped 43% since January to under 1.1M, which is "advertisers bailing out" territory. That's a lot duller than the Brendan Carr theory.