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Free speech? What is that Grandpa?

Journal by Runaway1956

"Hush child! Free speech is the reason you grew up without a grandma or your mommy or daddy! They all went to the Utah camps for demonstrating against the Democrat Party!"

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1520790249957429248?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/28/dhs-created-disinformation-governance-team-police-/

https://www.sott.net/article/467375-Panicked-CNN-guest-wonders-how-we-re-going-to-control-the-channels-of-communications-in-this-country

https://ijr.com/dhs-dismisses-concerns-disinformation-board-leader/

Geeez, people, too bad we didn't have a disinformation board in the McCarthy days, huh? All those commies and socialists could have been put into concentration camps. Those radical black activists could have joined them. All the gay activists, a bunch of feminists, the free sex cultist hippies, and all the druggies. Don't forget the illegal aliens!!

 

Reply to: Re:Pssssst, Runaway!

    (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 02 2022, @10:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 02 2022, @10:52PM (#1241630)

    The Babylon Bee got banned from Twitter and had posting disabled for an article naming Rachel Levine "Man of the Year". They were banned because it was deemed offensive due to Levine being a transgender person. Here's an article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/03/21/the-babylon-bees-twitter-account-was-suspended-but-that-made-its-story-go-viral/ [forbes.com].

    I'm not weighing in on whether the attempt at humor was funny or not, or whether it went too far. That's up to you to decide.

    The CEO, Seth Dillon went on Tucker Carlson's show to discuss the ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnq92_mR3yo [youtube.com]. The problem here is that Dillon goes beyond saying that satire and comedy should be protected. Instead, he suggests that the point of the satire was to take a position on whether a transgender person can actually transition to the opposite sex.

    A lot of comedy becomes unfunny when it focuses on taking political and social positions instead of humor. That's exactly what the Babylon Bee is doing here. SNL wasn't funny at all when it became too political, and I just wasn't interested in watching. And I'm someone who has watched all of the Celebrity Jeopardy sketches so many times on Youtube that I have pretty much know every line in all of the sketches. Yes, I enjoy them too much, but SNL actually was quite funny at times. The Babylon Bee is getting political here, and it's just not funny to me. It makes me less interested in any of their other content because I know they're trying to make political points instead of just being funny and writing satire.

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