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Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news.
"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!" Mr Trump wrote in a tweet.
Mr Trump's tweet came in response to a story written by NBC, which said that Mr Trump had sought to increase America's nuclear arsenal tenfold after taking a look at a briefing slide that showed stead reduction of the US nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. The story cited three officials who were reportedly in the room when Mr Trump made the comments.
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:31PM (4 children)
A Real Man puts his principles over his team.
Do you support free speech or not?
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:39PM (3 children)
As you can see in a post further down on the thread I am against it regardless of who is pushing it. The problem I think a lot of Republicans have is that when the Dems do the same thing nobody cares (Rs same way) so you have an endless cycle of refusing to help the other side when they are only interested if it hurts you.
I would be fine with taking action against politicans stepping on free speech, that is if it doesnt mean it gets repealed as soon as the other side gets one of their guys in power.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:49PM (2 children)
Most of the time the Republicans complain about 'censorship' they're talking about private entities choosing what to publish on their own platforms. That's not prohibited by the constitution.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:28PM (1 child)
After being threatened with the loss of lucrative government contracts if they refuse...
All of these corporates that are happy for censorship are in bed with the CIA and Pentagon, and they started their censorship campaign after they got in bed with the CIA and Pentagon. Amazon ran in the red for a decade and a half until they got a lucrative data hosting contract with the CIA and now they love censoring Republicans. Google similarly started fucking with people after they got federal contracts. Twitter, same story except they got in bed with the Saudis and Qataris. Wikipedia, Reddit, Metafilter, Cracked.com, have friends in the CIA and State Department and Booz and they all have the same friends. The corporates that don't follow along get hacked by 0-days, hit by the largest DDOSes ever seen, have all of the sexual misbehavior of their officers exposed by the media, have rent-a-mobs threaten to riot and burn down their facilities over imagined grievances, and all of their investors cut them loose and refuse to explain why.
These are not private entities operating on their own.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:53PM
Lucrative government contracts? That's something media shouldn't have to begin with. You cannot lose what you do not have.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.