3 Jan 2024 1:10 pm
To answer my question, I now see that Cannonpointer referred to usa360 when he mentioned someone's desire to promote government censorship. I will assert that, despite widespread opinion, the government isn't the only source of censorship. Media corporations have practiced defacto censorship for decades through the consolidation of media, which denies an ever-increasing percentage of people access to media. The consolidation of radio station ownership and the advent of automated radio stations have helped destroy local news and public affairs coverage and talk radio in hundreds of small towns. The closing of hundreds of newspapers throughout the past twenty years has also eliminated local news coverage and the voice of ordinary citizens, known as letters to the editor. The restoration of the Fairness Doctrine would help combat disinformation. However, the political right generally opposes such a rebirth because it supported the Fairness Doctrine's elimination in the first place.Cannonpointer » 03 Jan 2024, 12:16 pm » wrote: ↑ You have a rather unsavory choice of friends.
That fruitcake yearns for a government censorship board with broad powers to shut down speech.
Just imagine trying to debate with a truncated universe of ideas and beliefs. It would be double-plus bad.