Analysis - Republicans claim they are being silenced as they speak to millions of viewers

[DonViejo]

February 4, 2021

Hawley’s warning got here as he spoke to greater than 3.1 million viewers. It was in keeping with rhetoric that has been employed by some conservatives within the month since social media platforms eliminated former president Donald Trump.

Through the primary 5 weeks of 2021, Fox News hosts and company have ceaselessly claimed that “conservative voices” are being “silenced” or “censored,” in accordance to a Fix assessment of closed captioning data, even as millions of Americans continued to watch the community, albeit in smaller numbers. Many of these company have been Republican lawmakers, and you may watch examples of their feedback within the video above.

In 2020, Fox hosts and company used some mixture of the phrases “silence,” “cancel” and “censor” greater than 4,800 instances. Through the primary month of 2021, Fox hosts and company have used these phrases greater than 900 instances on air, in accordance to a Fix assessment, equal to almost one-fifth of all references the earlier yr.

On Jan. 10, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) bemoaned the facility of tech firms to “wipe you out” as he spoke to greater than 1.9 million viewers.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. They've been doing this for years...

bouncing around all the morning talk shows, complaining about being "silenced." It seems to sell a lot of books.

[mr_lebowski]

2. You have a RIGHT ... to FREE SPEECH, to PEACEABLY assemble, and to petition the government

Speech, i.e. the words that physically come from your mouth.

The Press also has certain Freedoms as well, of course.

You, as a random individual, do NOT, however, have the 'right' ... to Tweet. To Facebook. To Instagram.

Those companies denying you posting privileges are a practical equivalent to a newspaper not publishing a Letter to the Editor you sent in.

Nobody thinks that newspapers are obliged to print every LTTE they receive ... do they?

[Walleye]

3. Exactly.The letter to the editor example is the one I've been thinking of.

Governments censor, newspapers edit. Big difference. I don’t know who said that freedom of the press belongs to the people who own the press. Not sure that’s exactly correct but you get the jist. I laugh every time I hear these people call into Washington journal on C-SPAN. And complain loudly,to a national audience, and free of charge, that they are being silenced.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Right. And nobody is stopping any of them from firing up the old LaserJet ...

Printing up a bunch of leaflets and flyers talking about the QAnon conspiracy, or even how they dream of murdering their political opponents, and handing them out on street corners, or putting these messages onto posters and carrying them around.

THOSE are your Free Speech Rights.

Not Twitter, Not Instagram, Not Facebook.

[Chainfire]

5. "Why's everbody always pickin on me?"

A whole subsection of the nation is a bunch of whiners and crybabies. And they call us sheeple.

Hey, Republicans, people don't like you for a reason....think about it.