WaPo Publishes Column Calling on Cable Companies to Shut Down Fox News, Newsmax, OAN: 'Incited Sedit

[Caliman73]

49. They aren't shutting down. Someone is asking cable companies to stop broadcasting.

There is a difference.

I understand the side you are arguing. This is censorship by cable companies.

We can certainly have a discussion about the power of the large cable companies like Spectrum, Cox, Viacom, etc... We also need to have a discussion about Twitter, Facebook, and Google with regards to social media.

The problem that I see is this. Fox, Newsmax, and OANN are not little ragtag leftist channels that operate on a shoestring, trying to get the word out on the establishment and capitalism. They are coordinated, right wing, propaganda, funded by billionaires, with the sole intent to maintain their own power.

That these companies are being pressured and it is having an effect, is actually a good thing. Right wing propaganda is not "free speech", it is a platform for incitement to violence.

I have said this many many times here. We have always had a divide, always between conservatives and liberals, and others from each end of the spectrum. Thing is, we always argued using the same facts. Right wing media has so poisoned the discussion, that a whole segment of the population is not operating in the same reality.

It is a double edged sword to stop carrying those networks. I understand that, but again, this is not a "good faith" debate we are having. This is right wing discourse, designed solely for propaganda, which will use liberal ideas to circumvent the arguments. We know that we have better arguments, but liberalism doesn't allow for the media to actually make those arguments. Liberalism takes the position of neutrality. Most of the media is owned by corporations and conservatives as well so conservatives get much more airtime. This is the news consumer putting pressure on the corporations that carry the right wing propaganda, to stop supporting it.