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Shit's gonna change. No matter what. Probably tomorrow.

The unique experience is actually right now when everything hasn't resolved yet.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 06 2020, @08:22PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday November 06 2020, @08:22PM (#1073858) Journal

    I agree that getting rid of that is partially responsible for getting us here.

    However, I really just can't get behind the government enforcing editorial control over private communications services.

    I think we're gonna need to come up with a different solution.

    Maybe you just shouldn't be allowed to call yourself news if the majority of your content is opinion? I could see that being analogous to fraudulently advertising your product which is not protected speech. We might be able to get some bipartisan support behind that one since it'll affect CNN etc. too.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 06 2020, @09:20PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 06 2020, @09:20PM (#1073898) Homepage Journal

    I really just can't get behind the government enforcing editorial control over private communications services.

    Consider it a tax. Your platform (facebook, twitter, etc) may adopt any position you like, and promote any position you like, as much as you like. However, in exchange for your sweet monopolistic franchise, you have to put forth opposing opinions.

    I think we can all agree that social media has influenced the vote this year. You won't agree, I'm sure, but I say it has had far too much undue influence.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @02:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @02:16AM (#1074019)

      However, in exchange for your sweet monopolistic franchise, you have to put forth opposing opinions.

      Yeap, teach the controversy again.
      By the simple law of entropy, for a handful of opinions that hold value, there are an infinite number of opinions which are crazy.
      Let the flood begin [twitter.com], or else is censorship.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @11:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @11:23PM (#1073960)

    However, I really just can't get behind the government enforcing editorial control over private communications services

    No need for the government to exercise "editorial control". Even when we did have a fairness doctrine they didn't do that. Instead, I think that if Fox News does decide to give air time to QAnon conspiracy theories then they should be required to back it up with actual bona fide evidence or face stiff fines per infraction. We also need to dust off those libel and slander laws and put them to good use again. People shouldn't be allowed to propagate nutty conspiracy theories without facing consequences. We have already seen how that kind of thing can be dangerous (e.g., Pizzagate).