Posted on 05/02/2022 5:38:24 AM PDT by blam
A CNN talking head declared Sunday that if Elon Musk is allowed to buy Twitter, the platform will have to be government regulated to prevent ‘discourse’ being open and free, and not subject to establishment controlled censorship.
While discussing the Musk take-over on CNN’s potato time with Brain Stelter, “media analyst” David Zurawik proclaimed that Musk is “dangerous” and shouldn’t be allowed to restore free speech on the platform.
Zurawik suggested that the U.S. look to Europe, which has recently brought in new laws to limit social media, and even threatened to ban Twitter if Musk doesn’t play ball.
“There’s a bigger problem here about how we’re going to control the channels of communications in this country,” Zurawik frothed, panicking at the notion of the likes of CNN not being able to dictate what Americans think.
“This is dangerous! We can’t think anymore in this country!” Zurawik whined, adding “I’m serious! We don’t have people in Congress who can make regulations, that can make it work.”
“I think we can look to the Western countries in Europe for how they are trying to limit it. But you need controls on this,” the talking slap head continued.
“You need regulation. You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell,” Zurawik further suggested.
“We are there,” he added, further claiming that “Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down.”
“We gave over what amounts to our airwaves or our internet waves to Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and we are in so much trouble because those guys believe in making money,” he said.
Watch:
CNN’s David Zurawik: “Dangerous” with Elon Musk buying Twitter, we need to look to Europe.
“You need regulation. You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell. We are there. Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down.” pic.twitter.com/QubyKZwVCQ
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 1, 2022
Zurawik repeated a talking point that Hillary Clinton raised last week, championing Europe for cracking down on ‘disinformation’:
They got it done! https://t.co/Wc4kA9DPsb
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 25, 2022
And now, just a week later, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has rolled out a literal Ministry of Truth, headed up by a deranged partisan who truly believes that anything she disagrees with is hate speech.
You messed around and found out, dincha?
IT’S NOT “OPEN AND FREE” NOW !
That’s the whole point
This is from Wikipedia:
Zurawik was born to a Jewish family[3][4] and earned a master’s degree in specialized reporting from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.[5] His dissertation in 2000 was titled The Jews of prime time: Ethnicity, self-censorship and assimilation in network television, 1949–1999. His doctoral advisor was Lawrence E. Mintz.[6]
Here’s Amazon’s summary of he Jews of prime time: Ethnicity, self-censorship and assimilation in network television, 1949–1999
https://www.amazon.com/Jews-Prime-Time-David-Zurawik/dp/1584652349
Exactly!
“RELIABLESOURCES”.
Yeah, right.
Bump
I saw this guy on TV. He said regulations on the internet, is the same as how the FCC has regulations on radio and TV broadcasting. That’s his view anyway. He said when radio started up in the 1920s, that Congress passed laws to regulate that then new technology. In his view, government regulates communications now with radio and TV and the internet is just another form of communication.
My tag line is proven true every single day.
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That’s pretty good. LOL!
You don’t control the channels of communication in this country.
It’s not yours to control.
I hope this keeps that guy up a night for a long time.
Not sure how, but I sure am enjoying the left’s reaction to him.
The Six Flags Guy is back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3DHKwcYpMI
A supposed quote from Idi Amin (Uganda dictator)
“Freedom of Speech. YES”
“Freedom after Speech? Who knows?”
CNN does not control my thinking. I have not watched them in decades. I can think, for myself.
Still think you are on the right side of this Semimojo?
“that’s our job”...Mika Brzezinski
Free Speech bump
Thx - ;-)
If by "this" you mean keeping the government from dictating what speech the techs allow, absolutely.
This guy's position is just the flip side of yours - both rely on the feds to dictate to the socials.
Once again, you have flipped the meaning.
Ban censorship. Is that clearer for you?
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