AOC says govt should rein news media : "you can't just spew disinformation '

[mattw1313]

Because there is a finite amount of jobs.

Imagine getting your law degree, going to an interview at the Cochran Firm and the lobby looks like the Million Man March.

I think there should be a middle ground between free public higher learning and the ridiculous prices being charged now.

are you equating the availability of education with the ability of individuals to complete that education?

 

[EndDomination]

Congress did it for the longest time, but I'm sure the Coli free-speech advocates are going to act like this isn't, or hasn't, already been a thing

 

[hex]

I rarely engage in "political" discussions but people need to cut the bullshyt directly out.

I see people saying "b bu but what about a '1984'-esque scenario where the government controls every aspect of the media!"

Look man, the president, the people around him, and his media enablers been peddling conspiracy theories and flat out lies to the point that people felt emboldened enough to attack the Capitol. Fueled largely by those falsehoods and disinformation.

Let's worry about rooting out that shyt before we concern ourselves with things going too far in the polar opposite fukking direction. It would be like your house burning to the ground....but you don't want to call the fire department because of potential water damage. There has to be a middle ground....there is a lot of censorship that could be applied to the "media" (OANN, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, etc.) before we gotta worry about some Big Brother shyt.

I mean...where does this "free speech, free media" shyt stop? Should Parler still be around? Who in their right mind would argue that?

Fred.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

This chick is dumb as fukk
What happens when that commission is Republican majority and decide to silence liberal voices?

This is as shortsighted as when the Democrats eliminated the 60 vote rule in the Senate to appoint cabinet members and judicial nominations. They got fukked like crazy and now we have 3 more Supreme court Justices because they were narrow minded as fukk.

She didn't say anything about a commission. That was for cabinet positions and lower court judges and only happened because of historic obstruction. What you're talking about was the result of Republicans - they eliminated the filibuster for higher court nominees. You all need to stop arguing from the GOP's position.

 

[EndDomination]

You're legitimately stupid if you agree with her

You think a smart solution to an unprecedented problem is "stupid?"

 

[Frida Giezman]

I’m eating her p*ssy from the back

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This chick is dumb as fukk
What happens when that commission is Republican majority and decide to silence liberal voices?

Probably shouldn't call other people dumb while you're blatantly failing to read their proposal correctly.

This is as shortsighted as when the Democrats eliminated the 60 vote rule in the Senate to appoint cabinet members and judicial nominations. They got fukked like crazy and now we have 3 more Supreme court Justices because they were narrow minded as fukk.

So you're assumption is that Republicans only violate norms cause the Democrats did it?

Republicans made clear they were just going to stop allowing Democratic judicial and administrative nominees to proceed whenever they could, even if they didn't have a case against that person, even if they were in the minority. And your suggestive is that the Democrats should have just let them do it and eaten the L because.....of some fantasy idea that the Republicans wouldn't dare change rules and violate norms to fukk the Dems even worse once they got power?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

People are saying, "This will lead to........something horrible!"

But back off that speculation for a moment and ask, what will the status quo lead to? Because the status quo is that 40% of the country will just automatically believe whatever fukking disinformation one set of extremists feeds them, no matter what the truth or evidence is. What is your plan to deal with that? Forget for a moment whatever you don't like about AOC's statement. How are you planning on going forward?

Right now 40% of the country believes the election was rigged and Trump really won....even though Trump has not only lost every recount and every court case, but has been ridiculed by the Republican election officials in charge of the states with the closest results. Some of the most prominent Republican Senators have openly said that the idea that the election was rigged is a joke and even their fellow Republican Congressmen don't really believe it. And yet 40% of the public STILL doesn't give up the idea that the election was rigged, solely because Trump, Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, and their online ecosystem insisted it was true against all available evidence.

Let's say tomorrow, those same people decide to tell those 40% that not only was the election rigged, but Black people are the ones who rigged it. What's the next move?

Still waiting for anyone to address this post.....

 

[Dro_Pesci]

While We’re at it. Politicians should be held accountable for intentionally lying to the public

 

[BlackJesus]

That would mean repealing section 230 which would probably backfire on the left liberal leaning social media companies and effectively shutting down big tech’s influence.

Probably not the result she wants

 

[Consigliere]

I think her intentions are good but she has some dangerous ideas.

 

[invincible1914]

I like AOC, i feel like she has the potential to be great once her views mature a bit.

People shyt on her but I feel like we need more young people like her who gets into politics to make a difference instead to the typical corporate politician that's in it for a bigger check.

I don’t like her brand of politics. She hijacks every progressive idea and makes herself the voice of it. She has a tweet for everything, and all of her bravado comes from running in a super blue district, so when she attacks other Democrats for being more toward the center and not as gung ho as she is... i don’t feel it. I have more respect for Cori Bush cause she has something on the line.

Plus she has a Donald Trump-like tweet addiction.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

every developed a civilized country already does this shyt. and before the 90s america was like that, too. the reason why The Learning Channel now hosts a bunch of shyt reality shows is because there was legislation in the late 90s that changed how and what tv stations can broadcast. IIRC

in canada, you have to pay extra to get fox news. every other news network is free or part of a "news" package.

news has to be objective and report facts. msnbc, cnn, and fox are all entertainment. not facts.

the fact that a shyt head like bill o'reilly spoke on national tv for decades is mind blowing

 

[tuckgod]

@calixprynce you taking long, I'll help you out..

Everyone else, feel free to dig for yourself...

Every post I've ever made about Trump
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Every post I've ever made about Maga
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Report back when you find your pro-Trump pro-Maga evidence.

I'm here.

And cut the gangsta talk.

It's not that deep.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That would mean repealing section 230 which would probably backfire on the left liberal leaning social media companies and effectively shutting down big tech’s influence.

Probably /not the result she wants

Don't know why you jumped to this conclusion, but both right and left have suggested that Section 230 needs a repeal or at least a rewrite, it's done much more harm than good. I have no clue why you think that social media companies are "left liberal" leaning at all, they appear quite firmly corporate centrist. Exposes who you've been listening to.

I don’t like her brand of politics. She hijacks every progressive idea and makes herself the voice of it. She has a tweet for everything, and all of her bravado comes from running in a super blue district, so when she attacks other Democrats for being more toward the center and not as gung ho as she is... i don’t feel it. I have more respect for Cori Bush cause she has something on the line.

Plus she has a Donald Trump-like tweet addiction.

It sounds like your objection could just be summarized as, "She should stop advocating so much for things she believes in."

Do you have an issue with her policies or just the fact that she advocates for her policies? Do you think Biden/Clinton-type centrism has been good to Black folk?