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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 22, 2021, 06:42:17 pm
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House Democrats are Going After Cable Providers and Streaming Services for Hosting Channels Like Fox News and OANN
By Brandon Morse | Feb 22, 2021 1:05 PM ET
When going after advertisers wasn’t enough to sink channels that hold conservative opinions, Democrats began shifting their attention to other methods of fascistically silencing their ideological opposition.
According to The Hill, Democrats are now going after streaming services and cable providers for playing host to what they call “misinformation†and for breeding “radicalized individuals.†The companies they’re going after include Comcast and Verizon, as well as streaming companies like Hulu and Roku to question their “ethical principlesâ€:
Reps. Anna Eshoo (Calif.) and Jerry McNerney (Calif.), senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, sent letters to the companies on Monday questioning their “ethical principles†involved in deciding which channels to carry and when to take action against a channel.
“Some purported news outlets have long been misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm,†they wrote.
“Misinformation on TV has led to our current polluted information environment that radicalizes individuals to commit seditious acts and rejects public health best practices, among other issues in our public discourse.â€
The letter specifically calls out Newsmax, One America Network (OANN) and Fox News.
more
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/02/22/house-democrats-are-going-after-cable-providers-and-streaming-services-for-hosting-channels-like-fox-news-and-oann-n331077
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A dictatorship CANNOT ALLOW NOR TOLERATE FREE SPEECH, ESP THE THIRD WORLD TYPE.
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The CEO of one of those companies should shoot back an open letter to those hacks questioning their ethical principles for abusing the power of their office to rape the First Amendment just like Joe McCarthy did a lifetime ago.
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So go ahead. PROVE THE "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" RIGHT!
Any outfit on the level can prove their legitimacy, and need not reply by silencing opposition.
Joseph Goebbels would have been so proud of these antifascists.
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They'll start going after public libraries too.
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House Dems Pressure Distributors to Justify Carrying Fox News, Others
By John Eggerton a day ago
Sent letters to cable, streaming and satellite companies decrying 'disinformation'
https://www.nexttv.com/news/house-dems-pressure-distributors-to-justify-carrying-fox-news-others
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Well I'm stunned! Stunned I say! Who could have seen this coming? /s
Kind of obvious why the left wants to disarm the American public after stealing the election.
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Scratch a Liberal...find a fascist.
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FCC Nukes Congressional Dems Pressuring Cable Providers and Streamers to Mute Misinformation-Peddling Fox News
By Alex Parker | Feb 23, 2021 1:30 PM
It’s interesting how parties evolve.
Many years ago, Democrats stood against censorship.
And if I may say so, they actively opposed it more than did Republicans.
Now? It’s a might different.
So believes Brendon Carr, one of a quartet of commissioners for the Federal Communications Commission.
On Monday, Brendon braised Democratic representatives for an attack against right-leaning TV channels following fallout from the 2020 election. ...
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2021/02/23/fcc-nukes-congressional-dems-pressuring-cable-providers-and-streamers-to-mute-misinformation-peddling-fox-news-n331634
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What could possibly go wrong?
Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera starts conservative online media platform for US called Rightly that will be run by a former Fox News editor
*Al Jazeera is launching a conservative digital media platform called Rightly
*The media network, which is funded by the Qatari government, will aim to target 'center-right folks who feel left out of mainstream media'
*Scott Norvell, who worked at Fox News and News Corp for more than a decade, will head Rightly as its editor in chief
*The platform is expected to launch its first opinion program on Thursday with additional programs to follow within the next few months
By Emily Crane For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:12 EST, 23 February 2021 | Updated: 15:48 EST, 23 February 2021 ...
Story at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9292105/Al-Jazeera-starts-conservative-media-platform-US.html)
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So much for Free Speech!
It's so "18th Century" that nobody will miss it anyhow,right?
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They'll start going after public libraries too.
@mikezpen
Do people,other than the homeless looking for shelter,even go to the library anymore?
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Do people,other than the homeless looking for shelter,even go to the library anymore?
I do. I love our local library. The one in the larger city to our south is populated largely by bums, however.
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I do. I love our local library. The one in the larger city to our south is populated largely by bums, however.
@mountaineer
I thought devices like Kindle had made libraries obsolete.
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I thought devices like Kindle had made libraries obsolete.
It doesn't cost anything to check out a book. I'm a cheapskate.
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It doesn't cost anything to check out a book. I'm a cheapskate.
@mountaineer
You might be surprised at how many free downloads there are.
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You might be surprised at how many free downloads there are.
Not interested. I prefer reading real books, not gazing at an illuminated screen.
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Not interested. I prefer reading real books, not gazing at an illuminated screen.
There is a distinct pleasure, at least for me, in holding a book and turning pages. I truly miss all the books I had to give up when we had to give up the house and down size into a dinky ass apartment, storage costs were just too high to justify the few things we were saving. I have a kindle, it's okay but just not the same, especially scrolling through lists instead of perusing books on the bookshelf.
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Not interested. I prefer reading real books, not gazing at an illuminated screen.
@mountaineer
Yeah,I get it.I really do. I have a Kindle that sits while I continue to buy and read books.
It does come in handy during power outages,though. I can go out and plug it into my truck dashboard to charge it up and download books,or just read one of the books stored in it. Once it's charged,I can go back in the house to read.
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There is a distinct pleasure, at least for me, in holding a book and turning pages. I truly miss all the books I had to give up when we had to give up the house and down size into a dinky ass apartment, storage costs were just too high to justify the few things we were saving. I have a kindle, it's okay but just not the same, especially scrolling through lists instead of perusing books on the bookshelf.
Agreed. I miss the smell too. Old pages.
Unfortunately, my Biblical library went all digital for the sake of search functions which I am lost without. And even the rather arcane books and subject matter that I dwell in is available in plain text... so if I remember a passage, and can pull out three words, I can search my texts and find the passage, whether in the Bible or the church fathers, or the jewis fathers, or even occult and psuedepigraphical works... That is a thing that real books cannot do.
And so my library is reduced to a set of files that easily fit on the smallest thumb drive you can find, and the hard copies all went away in the divorce.
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Not interested. I prefer reading real books, not gazing at an illuminated screen.
Same here. We have a bookshelf with only 5 shelves and I keep thinking, I need to buy some American history books and put those on the shelves. I was thinking of donating my fiction books to the library to make room for the American history books that I purchase or add biographies from people like Limbaugh, Levin, etc. I have a few written by Glenn Beck, Ron Paul, Oliver North, Gen. Tommy Franks, Ted Cruz...and others.
Right now my library is not accepting donations. I take out fiction books from the library; it saves me money buying them, and I really don't need to buy another Danielle Steel book -- read it and return it.
I want to build an American history bookshelf with biographies - mixed in with my Bibles, spiritual books and cookbooks.
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FCC Republicans Blast Democrat Attempt to Censor Cable Networks
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/24/fcc-republicans-blast-democrat-attempt-to-censor-cable-networks/
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Agreed. I miss the smell too. Old pages.
On the other hand there is something really nice about finishing a book at 10 pm and be reading a new one by 10:05.
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On the other hand there is something really nice about finishing a book at 10 pm and be reading a new one by 10:05.
@skeeter
You buy your books one at a time?
I didn't even know such a thing was possible.
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On the other hand there is something really nice about finishing a book at 10 pm and be reading a new one by 10:05.
And your bookmark never falls out... I get it.
Still, there is something to the smell, the texture, the tactile nature...
And there is something to the idea that the best place to read is in a library smelling of old pages, old leather, and pipe smoke. There is a thing in ancient wooden shelves and leather bindings, and comfy overstuffed leather chairs. If you can 'feel' all of that, (which I do, very much) Then you know why a hardback will always beat Kindle.
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And your bookmark never falls out... I get it.
Still, there is something to the smell, the texture, the tactile nature...
And there is something to the idea that the best place to read is in a library smelling of old pages, old leather, and pipe smoke. There is a thing in ancient wooden shelves and leather bindings, and comfy overstuffed leather chairs. If you can 'feel' all of that, (which I do, very much) Then you know why a hardback will always beat Kindle.
I attended an evening class at USF in their Lone Mountain library over looking the Pacific Ocean for two years, I kinda know what you mean. Can't duplicate that in my bedroom so with the Kindle I gotta use the imagination.
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I attended an evening class at USF in their Lone Mountain library over looking the Pacific Ocean for two years, I kinda know what you mean. Can't duplicate that in my bedroom so with the Kindle I gotta use the imagination.
I have PARTICULARLY intended to replicate that - My living room has three wooden bookshelves already. several trunks, a leather Lazy Boy recliner, and a media machine that not only does TV, but carries my audio files. Sadly, what it is missing is BOOKS. Especially my Biblical library, and my ancient texts library, and my books on bardic lore, my leather-bound Tolkien... My leather-bound Twain. My antique leather-bound Thoreau. And London.... And complete Kipling. My ancient copy of the Odyssey that half the wear came by my own hand... Yes, even my Chaucer in auld English. I miss it all.
Now, I still have it all, like I said, in text files. It's just not the same in electronic text.
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I have PARTICULARLY intended to replicate that - My living room has three wooden bookshelves already. several trunks, a leather Lazy Boy recliner, and a media machine that not only does TV, but carries my audio files. Sadly, what it is missing is BOOKS. Especially my Biblical library, and my ancient texts library, and my books on bardic lore, my leather-bound Tolkien... My leather-bound Twain. My antique leather-bound Thoreau. And London.... And complete Kipling. My ancient copy of the Odyssey that half the wear came by my own hand... Yes, even my Chaucer in auld English. I miss it all.
Now, I still have it all, like I said, in text files. It's just not the same in electronic text.
You musta really p*ssed your ex off.
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There's been a bill floating around for years about feds investigating and collecting data concerning "hate" in the media.Schumer helped sponsor it. That could become law and give them some legal basis for going after conservatives.
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You musta really p*ssed your ex off.
Yeah, it wasn't pretty. She wanted my tools. All of them. Hell, she wanted me turned out penniless in the streets. But she could not touch my tools (had em before we were married), which was the lion's share of my wealth, or rather, my ability to generate wealth.... Tools themselves are worth nothing in resale. But the tools were not even on the table, as they can't take away my means of trade... And my guns, for the most part are not titled or recorded, and mostly back in the woods, so that didn't work either. So she dicked me the only way she could. There was only one thing I set store by that she could take. My library.
My only solace is that she sold em all in a garage sale for pennies... There were books in there worth up to 1200 bucks. I could have pretty near bought this place, cashing in that library.
And she, unaware and vindictive, sent them down the road, pennies to the pound, in laundry baskets. Dumb. Had she only known. :silly:
:whistle:
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And your bookmark never falls out... I get it.
Still, there is something to the smell, the texture, the tactile nature...
And there is something to the idea that the best place to read is in a library smelling of old pages, old leather, and pipe smoke. There is a thing in ancient wooden shelves and leather bindings, and comfy overstuffed leather chairs. If you can 'feel' all of that, (which I do, very much) Then you know why a hardback will always beat Kindle.
My oldest book is from 1749. It makes me wonder who else held and read that book, where it traveled, whose thoughts it provoked. Besides, hard copy is hard copy. it only takes a few clicks to alter digital content.
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@mountaineer
I thought devices like Kindle had made libraries obsolete.
Remember when Amazon pulled 1984 because of "copyright issues?" They deleted the book from peoples Kindles and Libraries.
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Democrat Anna Eshoo: Criticism of Attempt to Censure Conservative Cable Networks a Red Herring
Sean Moran 24 Feb 2021
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who wrote a letter with Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) asking cable providers if they planned to continue carrying conservative networks, claimed on Wednesday that Republican criticisms of her and McNerney’s letter are “red herrings.â€
Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Jerry McNerney (D-CA), two members of the Communications and Technology subcommittee, sent letters to the leaders of several television providers, asking them if they plan to take action against Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network (OANN) for spreading “disinformation.â€
The two Democrats asked:
Have you taken any adverse actions against a channel, including Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN, for using your platform to disseminate disinformation related directly or indirectly to the November 3, 2020 elections, the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, or COVID-19 misinformation?
McNerney and Eshoo also asked, “Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN on U-verse, DirecTV, and AT&T TV both now and beyond any contract renewal date? If so, why?â€
During a hearing on media and misinformation, Eshoo claimed she was merely raising questions. She also said the United States has a problem surrounding misinformation to the Constitution’s free speech protections. She said:
I would also like to state that the letter asks the companies questions. Now, I don’t know Mr. Turley if you find this so chilling that it’s actually glacial for Congress to ask strong, important questions — I think we owe that to the Ms. Urquiza, how do you answer to what was put out and her father is gone? I call them lies. You call that the open market? You call that competitive with a problem in this country it’s a large one, it’s a sticky wicket because of our Constitution, but we need to examine and be frank with each other about what is taking place in the country.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/24/democrat-anna-eshoo-criticism-of-attempt-to-censure-conservative-cable-networks-a-red-herring/
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Rodgers Slams Dems Pressuring Companies to Censor Conservative Outlets: Like ‘Chinese Communist Party’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/24/rodgers-slams-dems-pressuring-companies-to-censor-conservative-outlets-like-chinese-communist-party/
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Yeah, it wasn't pretty. She wanted my tools. All of them. Hell, she wanted me turned out penniless in the streets. But she could not touch my tools (had em before we were married), which was the lion's share of my wealth, or rather, my ability to generate wealth.... Tools themselves are worth nothing in resale. But the tools were not even on the table, as they can't take away my means of trade... And my guns, for the most part are not titled or recorded, and mostly back in the woods, so that didn't work either. So she dicked me the only way she could. There was only one thing I set store by that she could take. My library.
My only solace is that she sold em all in a garage sale for pennies... There were books in there worth up to 1200 bucks. I could have pretty near bought this place, cashing in that library.
And she, unaware and vindictive, sent them down the road, pennies to the pound, in laundry baskets. Dumb. Had she only known. :silly:
:whistle:
Sounds like the same thing my mother did to my Dad; sold a lot of his stuff in a garage sale before he had a chance to get them. Valuables that had been in his family for years...she did it out of spite and vindictiveness.
Some people just have an evil tick in them and can always somehow justify their actions in their own minds.
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Remember when Amazon pulled 1984 because of "copyright issues?" They deleted the book from peoples Kindles and Libraries.
@Cyber Liberty
No.
If you say it happened,I believe you,but somehow I missed it.
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@Cyber Liberty
No.
If you say it happened,I believe you,but somehow I missed it.
The point I make, is if they can reach into your device to rip out a book, then they can "update" a book you have in a subtle way, like changing text or deleting "hate speech," and you'll never know it. That's the stuff that worries me about going all E-book.
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As we have seen how 'fair' democrats can be, even recently, its scarey to think just how oppressive democrat censorship will be. As lock-stepper this age to last Century , their book burning ways, ways were not to be trusted. Not then, not now.