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Joy Behar reveals The View is going on hiatus day after White House calls for it to be canceled
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“They” who?
So then the comparisons have nothing to do with each other, making your point moot.
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Of course defamation is free speech.
Restricting it is one of the many legitimate limitations on free speech that we tolerate.
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Who are you calling silly?
Disney's Bob Iger and the head of the FCC, Brendon Carr, according to the article.
With the president gloating that Colbert “got fired” and claiming he struck a secret side deal with Skydance for an additional $20 million in pro-Trump advertising, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr – who is responsible for approving the merger – didn’t directly answer Fox News on Thursday when asked if Trump had anything to do with Colbert’s cancellation.
At the same time, Carr also suggested that The View could be a program he’d take a close look at amid the White House’s push for it to be taken off the air.
“Look, it’s entirely possible that there’s issues over there,” he said. “Stepping back, this broader dynamic [that] once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there are a lot of consequences. I think the consequences of that aren’t quite finished.”
Trump has a history of malign threats, some of which he makes good, others not so much.
Congress has no say in this.
And the president ought not to.
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No. It means you are deliberately trying to be obtuse to argue for the sake of arguing. Presidents forcing companies to do things is nothing new. Last I checked, OSHA fell under the executive branch and is owned by the president.
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If you recall, it wasn't just the covid stuff, they got quite a bit of mileage out of that "misinformation justifies censorship" schtick.
While Covid was the bulk of it (attempts to censor theories about lab leaks, censoring content that suggested that natural immunity was effective, posts describing side effects, etc...)
There was also the Hunter Biden laptop fiasco...
As well as other things that weren't even declarative statements, but merely opinions, that would get the labelling (or de-boosted in the algorithms), for instance, shadow bans occurring if people posted things that were critical of mail-in voting -- even if those posts didn't make any declarative statements about election fraud.
Censorship of anecdotes was a thing as well... Where if a person had an anecdote (even if that experience was an extreme outlier), it was a "better censor it out of fears that readers will think that sort of thing is more common than what it is".
Also, where we'd disagree... I don't think any kind of emergency should justify that kind of censorship.
Perhaps in a different world with honest and sincere politicians, one could make a case for that with me and win me over, but that's not the world we live in. We live in the one where if they find out the rules are "As long as we claim something is an emergency, we can suspend certain rights or make changes that we wouldn't be able to do with the proper channels", they will use it to their full advantage.
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You’re saying because the government had requirements of businesses to help mitigate the spread of a pandemic, that somehow means it’s not a broad overreach to demand a show be cancelled because you don’t like that they don’t like you. I’m saying they’re not comparable because the show isn’t a health issue. Pretending a mask mandate is the same as demanding a show be cancelled for saying things the president doesn’t like is ludicrous.
OSHA mandates safe work practices and conditions… Speaking against the president is not an OSHA violation. Again, you’re comparing safety regulations that protect the greater good to penalizing a company for speaking against dear leader.
I could stand on the top rung of a stepladder and scream at the top of my lungs about how much I hate Trump and how damaging his presidency is and how incompetent and easily led he is, and the only thing OSHA will have an opinion about is me being on the top rung of the stepladder.
And I’m still waiting to hear who the “they” is that defamed ol what’s-her-face. South Park is protected by free speech and satire, The View doesn’t like her, but dislike isn’t defamation.
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A rumor started on Facebook, reported on by a gossip rag, then spread back on Facebook.
Colbert came out and said it wasn’t true and if it were he would have been cancelled eons ago.
Breaking down claim CBS was losing $40M a year on Colbert's 'Late Show'
Rumors about the $40 million annual losses appeared to stem from reports published by a media outlet called Puck and the New York Post.
www.snopes.com
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