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To: brownsfan

Right, and it was probably done VOLUNTARILY. And while I might not like it, this is probably the correct conclusion.

We all know the SM companies are run by leftists.


4 posted on 06/26/2024 7:28:42 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: FrankRizzo890

I hate to say it, but it’s likely the correct conclusion.

I doubt very much that the White House had to put much pressure, if any, on the SM companies to run cover for them. They’re all in the same globalist boat.

It’s up to these private companies as to whether or not they want to adhere to and fight for freedom of speech principals. Musk does. These leftist companies went along with the comrades.


12 posted on 06/26/2024 7:35:41 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (The left is loathsome, beyond anything I could have believed.)
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To: FrankRizzo890

So the deciding issue was whether there was coercion? But my argument is that it is almost impossible to entangle cooperation with the government’s preference, which amounts to self censorship, from the fear that not cooperating means being punished. That in my mind is censorship. It does not always have to be a direct “shall not.” It is enough if an action is taken because of the implication of government displeasure.


24 posted on 06/26/2024 7:48:56 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: FrankRizzo890

“Right, and it was probably done VOLUNTARILY. And while I might not like it, this is probably the correct conclusion.”

So doing the same with newspapers would also be fine with you? Maybe we now are the Soviet Union, after all.


32 posted on 06/26/2024 7:59:11 AM PDT by BobL
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To: FrankRizzo890

“ We all know the SM companies are run by leftists.”

EVERYTHING in America is run by Marxists.


56 posted on 06/26/2024 8:48:26 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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