Crime OAN begs liberals to save them

[Konquest]

Let me preface this post by saying that I am a leftist and that freedom of expression is not only a fundamental human right, but a principle worth countless lives. Many have paid the ultimate price for free expression and should be praised for the sacrifices they made. If you consider yourself on the left, this decision by Verizon should be appalling. This is clearly a politically motivated cancellation.

If you aren't willing to defend the ability for people to say what you find most repulsive, then you aren't free speech.

First they came for Alex Jones, which I argued against even back then.

Soon, any threat to the establishment narrative begins to be censored, especially those that contradict foreign policy blunders. If you don't defend speech rights when it comes to the most bad faith of actors, you have no right to complain when they come after you.

The big tech oligarchy only began censoring at government behest AFTER they were called to capitol hill and threatened by congress. That is what led to the "censorship-by-proxy" approach the US Government now enjoys. Now, whenever something is said that the establishment doesn't like, they use the implied threat of anti-trust action, criminal action or other congressional action as a stick to beat the big tech dog into censoring their users against their own interests. Its important to understand this dynamic before saying "its private companies, bro; they can do what they want." No, they cant. They were doing what they wanted before and kept getting threatened by the government to start censoring or else, and they complied out of fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.

For those of you who believe this is unique to the United States, it isn't. 80% of the censorship that takes place in Chna is executed by private companies. They understand that if they don't act in the interest of their ruling class, it could be their end; looks like we just started to copy their model.

It seems like every year more and more anti-war websites are getting censored, not only by social media and video platforms, but now by payment processors (who are also acting at the behest of the establishment).

Chapo Traphouse - deleted from youtube

Consortium News - blocked by payment processors

Mintpress News - Blocked by payment processors

Jackson Hinkle - Demonitized by youtube and blocked by payment processors (including Venmo)

There are also countless instances where individual videos are deleted and channels given strikes that are later overturned and reinstated. Anyone who claimed lableak possibility was censored, and later vindicated. Anyone who said vaccines wont prevent spread, even though its what pfizers documents actually said, censored and later vindicated. Anyone who questioned the efficacy of masks, censored and later vindicated.

This is not how a free press functions. Noam chomsky did an interview the other day with russell brand where he stated that the United States is now officially at a point where we are censoring more than the soviet union did....its worth a watch.



TL;DR: This trend among "liberals" and democrats of bootlicking the establishment and cheerleading censorship is antithetical to freedom. Censorship is always, by definition a benefit to the established power structure; and you just wait until the political party of the political class changes and you're views begin to be censored. Its a terrible precedent. Liberals and Democrats have become so blinded by partisanship, that they have lost sight of their most basic of principles. Free expression is the most integral right to a functioning democracy.

Good post. After enjoying the Schadenfreude for a few minutes it dawned on me that this is a pretty slippery slope.

 

[BAM]

Let me preface this post by saying that I am a leftist and that freedom of expression is not only a fundamental human right, but a principle worth countless lives. Many have paid the ultimate price for free expression and should be praised for the sacrifices they made. If you consider yourself on the left, this decision by Verizon should be appalling. This is clearly a politically motivated cancellation.

If you aren't willing to defend the ability for people to say what you find most repulsive, then you aren't free speech.

First they came for Alex Jones, which I argued against even back then.

Soon, any threat to the establishment narrative begins to be censored, especially those that contradict foreign policy blunders. If you don't defend speech rights when it comes to the most bad faith of actors, you have no right to complain when they come after you.

The big tech oligarchy only began censoring at government behest AFTER they were called to capitol hill and threatened by congress. That is what led to the "censorship-by-proxy" approach the US Government now enjoys. Now, whenever something is said that the establishment doesn't like, they use the implied threat of anti-trust action, criminal action or other congressional action as a stick to beat the big tech dog into censoring their users against their own interests. Its important to understand this dynamic before saying "its private companies, bro; they can do what they want." No, they cant. They were doing what they wanted before and kept getting threatened by the government to start censoring or else, and they complied out of fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.

For those of you who believe this is unique to the United States, it isn't. 80% of the censorship that takes place in Chna is executed by private companies. They understand that if they don't act in the interest of their ruling class, it could be their end; looks like we just started to copy their model.

It seems like every year more and more anti-war websites are getting censored, not only by social media and video platforms, but now by payment processors (who are also acting at the behest of the establishment).

Chapo Traphouse - deleted from youtube

Consortium News - blocked by payment processors

Mintpress News - Blocked by payment processors

Jackson Hinkle - Demonitized by youtube and blocked by payment processors (including Venmo)

There are also countless instances where individual videos are deleted and channels given strikes that are later overturned and reinstated. Anyone who claimed lableak possibility was censored, and later vindicated. Anyone who said vaccines wont prevent spread, even though its what pfizers documents actually said, censored and later vindicated. Anyone who questioned the efficacy of masks, censored and later vindicated.

This is not how a free press functions. Noam chomsky did an interview the other day with russell brand where he stated that the United States is now officially at a point where we are censoring more than the soviet union did....its worth a watch.



TL;DR: This trend among "liberals" and democrats of bootlicking the establishment and cheerleading censorship is antithetical to freedom. Censorship is always, by definition a benefit to the established power structure; and you just wait until the political party of the political class changes and you're views begin to be censored. Its a terrible precedent. Liberals and Democrats have become so blinded by partisanship, that they have lost sight of their most basic of principles. Free expression is the most integral right to a functioning democracy.

Going to pass on fighting for low level grifters scamming folks for a quick buck. If it's an honest actor I happen to disagree with - fine. But cynical propagandists with zero integrity, fuck em

 

[giusti825]

Going to pass on fighting for low level grifters scamming folks for a quick buck. If it's an honest actor I happen to disagree with - fine. But cynical propagandists with zero integrity, fuck em

You wouldn't be fighting for low-level grifters and scammers. You'd be fighting for the principle that they can say what they want without direct government intervention or government intervention by proxy, which is a million times more important than even the most repugnant message.

Whether you like it or not, unprincipled views like this open the door for the baby to get thrown out with the bathwater. Opening the doors of censorship lead to anything that the ruling class disagrees with getting a label as "grifter" or "scammer" or "terrorist" or "disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation."

You are not the ruling or political class. Once they are allowed to censor, it will only be used as a tool to advance the interests of the ruling or political class, as it has always been historically. Only those in power get to choose what gets censored. We should never accept it, no matter how much we disagree with a persons political views.

The cure for bad speech is discourse. Not only will we end up in a position where the ruling and political class weaponize censorship-by-proxy, but we will have the compound effect of bad ideas festering without scrutiny and debate. Its a double lose scenario.

 

[MoparOrNoCar]

keep in mind this is the same person

One America News Star Has Total Meltdown Over Pride Flag

https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-a...ver-pride-flag-in-huntington-beach-california

and some more fun from her



also a friendly reminder that she thinks that China is controlling the thermostat in her house to torture her.

I don't understand why they think liberals are watching in the first place to even hear this message. aint nobody got time for that chud propaganda, and stop asking for handouts ya socialists and commies. if you need money go get a fucking job or something instead of just sitting there in front of a camera trying to look pretty while reciting a bunch of fake news off of a teleprompter.

lol you really think you got one over on the "chuds" huh?

Then you look around and realize none of the conservatives here ever watch OAN or have even heard of this person.

 

[Jballer]

I’m in. Where can I donate?

 

[SakurabasEar]

She seems very grounded and totally mentally stable.



And I say this as someone who is tired of Pride month and seeing rainbow flags, crosswalks and benches all over the place.

I could fix her

 

[Fugazy]

She’s cute-cute for a white girl. Damn.

 

[Fugazy]

She’s right. And I’d keep her pregnant as fuck.

 

[Beechwood]

todays liberals do not believe in free speech. they believe and promote censorship. Todays liberal media does not speech to power. They instead protest the Democrats and promote Democrat policies, while attacking conservatives.

Hope OANN is able to make it. I don't personally watch TV news anymore, but have seen others comment that OANN can be streamed online.

Their web sight is ~

https://www.oann.com/

 

[Brom Bones]

She might have been able to save the network if she had shown moar cleavage.

Edit: Seriously, what kind of respectable Conservative anchor is she, not showing massive amounts of cleavage? Does she actually want people to take her seriously? LOL.

 

[HOLA]

This shit is too funny! The ol' "Fuck Your Feelings" network begging liberals to save them haha. Have they considered pulling themselves up by their bootstraps instead of looking for handouts?

After the 2020 elections, when chuds decided Fox News just wasn't extreme enough for them, OAN was all the rage, but then they got their ass sued. What a rise and fall.

 

[HOLA]

Let me preface this post by saying that I am a leftist and that freedom of expression is not only a fundamental human right, but a principle worth countless lives. Many have paid the ultimate price for free expression and should be praised for the sacrifices they made. If you consider yourself on the left, this decision by Verizon should be appalling. This is clearly a politically motivated cancellation.

If you aren't willing to defend the ability for people to say what you find most repulsive, then you aren't free speech.

First they came for Alex Jones, which I argued against even back then.

Soon, any threat to the establishment narrative begins to be censored, especially those that contradict foreign policy blunders. If you don't defend speech rights when it comes to the most bad faith of actors, you have no right to complain when they come after you.

The big tech oligarchy only began censoring at government behest AFTER they were called to capitol hill and threatened by congress. That is what led to the "censorship-by-proxy" approach the US Government now enjoys. Now, whenever something is said that the establishment doesn't like, they use the implied threat of anti-trust action, criminal action or other congressional action as a stick to beat the big tech dog into censoring their users against their own interests. Its important to understand this dynamic before saying "its private companies, bro; they can do what they want." No, they cant. They were doing what they wanted before and kept getting threatened by the government to start censoring or else, and they complied out of fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.

For those of you who believe this is unique to the United States, it isn't. 80% of the censorship that takes place in Chna is executed by private companies. They understand that if they don't act in the interest of their ruling class, it could be their end; looks like we just started to copy their model.

It seems like every year more and more anti-war websites are getting censored, not only by social media and video platforms, but now by payment processors (who are also acting at the behest of the establishment).

Chapo Traphouse - deleted from youtube

Consortium News - blocked by payment processors

Mintpress News - Blocked by payment processors

Jackson Hinkle - Demonitized by youtube and blocked by payment processors (including Venmo)

There are also countless instances where individual videos are deleted and channels given strikes that are later overturned and reinstated. Anyone who claimed lableak possibility was censored, and later vindicated. Anyone who said vaccines wont prevent spread, even though its what pfizers documents actually said, censored and later vindicated. Anyone who questioned the efficacy of masks, censored and later vindicated.

This is not how a free press functions. Noam chomsky did an interview the other day with russell brand where he stated that the United States is now officially at a point where we are censoring more than the soviet union did....its worth a watch.



TL;DR: This trend among "liberals" and democrats of bootlicking the establishment and cheerleading censorship is antithetical to freedom. Censorship is always, by definition a benefit to the established power structure; and you just wait until the political party of the political class changes and you're views begin to be censored. Its a terrible precedent. Liberals and Democrats have become so blinded by partisanship, that they have lost sight of their most basic of principles. Free expression is the most integral right to a functioning democracy.

The free market has spoken. It's not censorship anymore than CNN+ getting shut down was censorship.

OAN gained notoriety because they were willing to appease conspiratards more than Fox News was. That changed when the lawsuits started piling up, OAN cut the election fraud BS, and the chuds ran back to Tucker. Fuck em!

 

[idrankyourbeer]

this looks like a high school produced network lol



also this whole headline is fucking hilarious. diaper don is so butthurt lately. not only does mango mussolini have no chance in hell of winning this, but it would make him look like even more of an idiot. let him! dare him to drag rudy and the gang out of the GOP clown car and start filing some more of their frivilous lawsuits. and then when cheeto benito actually goes and does it, go for discovery just so he will hang himself out to dry! then watch as big baby butthurt tries to squirm his way out of it and try to claim executive privilege against discovery requests lol.

i'm sure everybody and their dogs are afraid of a frivolous diaper don lawsuit these days. toddler trump files lawsuits at literally everybody who hurts his precious little feelings. once upon a time these bully tactics used to work for him, but now he just gets laughed out of every courtroom in the land as the little boy who cried wolf.

 

[MicroBrew]

todays liberals do not believe in free speech. they believe and promote censorship. Todays liberal media does not speech to power. They instead protest the Democrats and promote Democrat policies, while attacking conservatives.

Hope OANN is able to make it. I don't personally watch TV news anymore, but have seen others comment that OANN can be streamed online.

Their web sight is ~

https://www.oann.com/

There's plenty of very rich conservatives who can fund OAN, from Trump to Peter Thiel.

 

[Spounman]

OAN?

 

[idrankyourbeer]

I’m in. Where can I donate?

probably on onlyfans. that homophobic news anchor chud is gonna start showing some more of her cleavage just to save the network.

 

[jx820]

I don't understand why they think liberals are watching in the first place to even hear this message. aint nobody got time for that chud propaganda

But we've heard the message. And there's a thread about it that I'm posting in, so I must have some time for what she's saying.

Still... I would cheerfully roast marshmallows over the burning corpse of OAN and can't wait for that network to die an undignified death.

 

[Fergelmince]

Not nearly as bad as the biggest failure in media history whenn CNN+ shut down after a month and no subscribers

 

[Spounman]

Not nearly as bad as the biggest failure in media history whenn CNN+ shut down after a month and no subscribers

What's the +? Don Lemon berates you for being white?

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

Do not care. Never heard of em.

If all things read about it are true, then I care even less. Go out on your shield, and stop begging from people you supposedly do not like.