How do we silence and censor right wing voices?

[Trumpetman]

For me the moment was many years back now, during an election cycle when both CNN and Fox News set up huge "social media centers." Rooms full of people scrolling through social media feeds to see what the people were saying about the election and other news.

I wouldn't know about that because 99.9% of the time I don't watch my news.

But the entire point of watching a journalist is that the journalist learns about the thing, and gives me at least a somewhat-informed presentation about the thing. If I wanted to know what sk8rbr04206969 thinks about economic sanctions against Iran I would have clicked on his ****ing feed. And I didn't. Because I do not give two shits about what some random nobody on the internet who has done possibly zero research thinks.

No this isn't about opinion. This is about news on the ground and citizen journalism. When I have seen cable news like when walking on the treadmill at the gym, most of their captured footage appears purchased from people off social media who were on the scene.

The "news" is often presented as discussion by a panel. You go to the CNN website, which honestly does a good job of labeling what they are doing and you see occasional news but much of it is labeled "Explainer" or "Analysis" in which those panels tell you what to think.



I don't need that from my "news" sources.

We did it to ourselves, though. They don't report the news anymore because it's not profitable. We don't subscribe to newspapers, either in print or online. We use adblockers and popup blockers which tank advertising revenue. We stopped getting journalism because we stopped paying for it.

News is absolutely profitable but you have to go ahead and report the news. People have caught on to the false narratives and gaslighting. CNN could have dug in deeply for example into the Hunter Biden laptop being real, questioned why with two assassination attempts we don't seem to know anything about the assassins, and the mental competency of Joe Biden as examples.

Instead they helped "fact check" and declare the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation. They blather on in panels about how Trump basically brought on his own assassinations, and just repeated the nonsense that Joe Biden videos that showed him confused were "cheap fakes".

That sort of performance is unprofitable because it isn't news. A recent thread on here highlighted record homelessness. We have massive illegal immigration. Inflation certainly isn't "transitory" and housing is at an all time unaffordability high. The news doesn't investigate that. They prefer propaganda for the ruling class.

 

[Fletch]

Education is different from cult indoctrination. Happy to help.

You didnt help at all. Can I chalk that up to more disinformation that the OP would like to see banned?

 

[RedAkston]

Fox and MSNBC, both, are propaganda mills.

Nailed it!

 

[RedAkston]

In fact I, per usual, nailed it.

FOX is straight up MAGA propaganda and MSNBC is left editorial.

When i am right i am right.

Just admit it.

Fyi, Rutgers plays Indiana tonight.

Look out for Bailey and Harper..

See post 99. You swung and missed, again.

 

[diz]

I have to believe the Democrats are alienating a lot of people when they reveal their anti-free speech totalitarianism.

You'd think they'd at least be smart enough to realize that if we did have a Ministry of Truth punishing Bad Speech the guy running it in a couple weeks would be Trump.

 

[Hamish Howl]

With how much right wing misinformation plagued this past election cycle. Unqualified and opinion people online has replaced professional journalism. It begs the question of what can be done about it?

We went the right direction during COVID doing soft censorship over content spreading lies about the virus and pandemic. But how can we go further? I believe sites like this should stop allowing the spread but we need a massive movement. Delisting Twitter, Fox News, Joe Rogan, and other platforms that allow right wing thought from the Google search algorithm. We need heavier moderation and rules for real journalism. If you're not a journalist there should be laws where you can be fined/presented with prison time for spreading harmful lies especially about immigrants and other marginalized groups. The right wing needs to be defeated and it starts by eliminating their voice, thoughts, and ability to spread their lies.

We don't. What the hell kinda shit is this?

This is the United States of America. We don't "silence and censor" people.

 

[TobyOne]

Lol. Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.

 

[element94]

You didnt help at all. Can I chalk that up to more disinformation that the OP would like to see banned?

You wish.