Posted on 02/19/2017 6:39:18 AM PST by davikkm
With Democrat leaders and MSM calling for “Fake News” sites to be shut down, monitored or audited, we are on the verge of an incredibly dangerous decision. If nations choose to censor or make the production of news sites a state affair, we risk being in a place where the only allowed news in State news. And this does no one any good, whether on the left or the right.
The idea of shutting down news sites that don’t fit in with mainstream narrative that Hillary Clinton proposed during her campaign, has gained traction in the circles of the elite, and is being actively chased by “sponsored activist groups”. This idea has a dark history behind it and we actually have examples of what happens when the State controls the media output.
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As opposed to a misinformed public who’ve been led to believe that Donald trumps’s dad ran for mayor and ran racist tv ads per YouTube retro facts and the Washington post?
The video was newsworthy on fascistbook but not the exposure of the hoax.
Done with crappy agitprop media.
They’re calling for a ban on their own news sites? Weird. (Sarcasm off)
But McStain says Trump is the threat to freedom of speech.
A less misinformed people.
“.......Fake News Will Lead to One Thing: A Less Informed Population:..........
If you get “fake news”, its NOT NEWS AT ALL, its a lie.
So which to they want, lies or the true facts. Too many idiots in this world already, why create more.
Fake news:
MediaMatters
ThinkProgress
DailyKos
DemocracyNow!
Just a few that the Left wants to keep intact but in reality are hate sites filled with fake news
CNN and other fake news sites are about to go the route of Air America. Once the advertising dries up, they are doomed unless funded by Soros and his crowd.
The definition of “fake news” and the ensuing narrative doesn’t get to be defined by Democrats and MSM. They ARE “fake news.” We should be 100% entirely clear on this. THEY don’t get to define it, much less call for restrictions. They got their “restrictions” on November 8, 2016.
A less informed population. Is that even possible?
There are lies, damned lies, and then there is Fake News.
Heh. I said member.
Is Hillary Clinton still 12 points ahead of Trump?
That’s what I was thinking. Yeesh, there hasn’t even been 65% voter turnout since 1908. And supposedly the dumbest voters who somehow still manage to vote decide all elections anyway, no matter who wins, based on who happens to sway them for that cycle.
Freegards
“Let’s shut down fake news, and everyone we disagree with or don’t want reporting what we censored is fake news.”
“We have the obligation to bash fascists, and everyone who disagrees with us is a fascist.”
I believe any media, of any type, should be able to publish anything they damn well please. True or not.
So should you.
nother couple of years and we’ll be right where france is now:
“France passes law imposing up to two years prison for running pro-life websites”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3526403/posts
Better than misinformed.
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