• Holyginz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Media channels from Russia are basically just spouting putin propaganda so why would they want to be subjected to that?

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      Many countries are spewing propaganda bullshit, including and in majority coming from USA. I don’t think media channels from USA should be blocked.

      Switzerland is doing the right thing, they never blocked any news channel or limiting freedom of speech in that way.

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        1 year ago

        Freedom of speech should never be given as an excuse for allowing hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism or anything else on that vein a platform.

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          1 year ago

          The paradox of tolerance is not taught to as many people as it should be.

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          The problem comes when you let the government decide what is “hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism”. It gives government too much power to control the opposition by censorship.

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            1 year ago

            What, as apposed to corporations and companies like Twitter, Facebook and reddit? Lol

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            What exactly do you propose to do about hate speech, racism, bigotry and fascism being spread on social media as propaganda, ignore it and hope no one sees it and gets radicalized? We’re already seeing people become terrorists after being radicalized by Internet media. and you would have us just hope we’re not in the line of fire when it happens again, I guess?

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              First of all, the USA is not the center of the world, the problems you guys have with mass shooting is not caused by the “hate speech”.

              And again banning hate speech is just masking the deeper institutional/educational problems you have, not solving them.

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        As someone born and raised in the USA, countries elsewhere absolutely should be blocking virtually all of our news media. We’re a toxic cesspool of entertainment/propaganda news, with an increasingly deadly end result for its consumers, and those around them.

        The agenda of the super rich relies very very heavily on our lying, greed-driven news media.