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In the wake of the US Capitol attack, TV giants like Comcast, AT&T, Amazon, and Roku are facing criticism for spreading misinformation by airing conservative news networks Newsmax, Fox News, and One America News Network.
AT&T and Comcast could be seen as anticompetitive if they block the networks since they run competing networks.
Others like Dish say they don t control the content that they distribute and want to give consumers choice.
But advertisers are increasingly scrutinizing TV content for misinformation and controversial material.
We have all seen the effects of a growing tide of portals and outlets seeking to silence, deplatform, limit, or outright remove specific voices and sources from public view. The justifications are numerous, and usually more hysterical than lucid. What is truly perplexing however is when a member of the media itself - a purported journalist no less - actively calls for the silencing of others in their field. Welcome, fair-minded citizens, to the vocational calling of Oliver Darcy, from CNN.
Darcy works in tandem with the infamous media hall monitor from their Reliable Sources program call him Stelter The Lesser to put out their daily newsletter. In the latest edition Ollie engages in what has been his stock in trade, the bizarre practice of a journalist promoting censorship. Most would think that someone whose very vocation is rooted entirely in the 1st Amendment would value above all else the freedom of expression and the open exchange of ideas in the public square. Not Darcy
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Michelle Obama has never been elected to any public office; neither have big tech companies. But that didn’t stop the former first lady from calling on social media platforms to permanently ban the sitting president of the United States, who received 74 million votes in the recent election. Amazon has never been elected to anything, yet it reaps the windfall of lockdowns in progressive states across the country as our small businesses die.
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