Mark and Ted discuss the ongoing battle between free speech and censorship that is occurring in the media, online and in Illinois.
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During the cold war Radio Moscow. Radio Peking and Radio Havana beamed their propaganda
into our country via shortwave radio without jamming. Currently the Powers That Be have banned outlets such as Russia Today from telling their own stories in our country. Looks like the scummy Indian and Chinese directors of Google, Twitter etc learned plenty from their blood thirsty Marxist trainers.
The FCC has written commented on but never took action regarding illegal ownership of large portions over the air television by megabanks. 1984 probably arrived in the early 1970s.
Here’s a new one, though no surprise. Google’s Gmail favors liberal emails and sends more conservative ones to spam. https://www.foxnews.com/media/google-gmail-favors-left-wing-candidates-conservatives-spam-study
I think the biggest problem is fewer and fewer people read any serious news in depth or at any length. everyone just reads a couple headlines off tweeter, fb, etc and have extremely limited attention span. the pols all understand this. 1.) Maybe this doesn’t answer WHY a fb for example chooses to sensor a new source, but another entire aspect of media censorship debate is extent that everyone is being tracked the # of times you hit on any sight, article, whatever your info is instantly being tracked, bundled and marketed for advertising $. My kids in that industry,… Read more »
Curious-If they are tracking every site and everything we purchase what time of day what we buy or just think of buying why is that not invasion of privacy. When we make a purchase online we pay for it a number of ways from credit card/debit card/paypal and that information is protected but what we buy is not. Then all that data is bundled and sold to others to sell in the open market. One purchase where the credit info is protected but the items are not.
Re your second question, in multiple congressional hearings where tech CEO’s were brought in many Dems were very explicit demanding more censorship and moderation. Re your third question, they terminated my monthly articles because of harsh criticisms I had often made about Crain’s itself and some of their writers. I hold no grudge against them; it’s there prerogative. While I think they and others should have thicker skins, I was not surprised.