NAACP Derrick Johnson calls for total advertising boycott on Twitter after meeting with Elon Musk

[PatrickforB]

14. Well, he SAYS he is an advocate of free speech, but Twitter has been

blocking free speech from the left while leaving free speech from the right intact.

That said, the question arises, for me at least, asking where's the line?

For example, is anti-Semitic 'free speech' ok? Like Hitler's favorite newspaper the Volkischer Beobachter?

How about racial and ethnic slurs? Are they OK?

This is why I'm always banging on (to use a Brit term) about the need for a modern Fairness Doctrine to replace the one the snake Reagan killed back in 1987.

According to that doctrine, each local area HAD to have a locally owned news station that reported the news in a factual, unbiased way. This was imposed after WWII because Congress was horrified at the thought of propagandists like Goebbels taking over here in the USA. The Fairness Doctrine was to prevent that.

After Reagan let it die, and cable TV and telecommunications were deregulated, we saw the metastitization of right wing hate-talk radio on AM and some FM frequencies, the rise of Fox, and other cable 'news' channels. The problem was that instead of news being beholden to the rule of law and truth as defined under that law, it was now beholden to shareholder profits in the form of ratings. Witness how they are always talking about the ratings of Hannity or Fox and Friends, Rachel and so on.

Most of where we get our 'news' is corporate owned, and publicly held corporations are ONLY responsible for shareholder profits - by legal doctrine (Dodge Bros v Henry Ford, MI Supreme Court 1919 - the doctrine of Shareholder Primacy).

This is all part of a slow coup set up by the Powell Manifesto of 1971 - a memo requested of Lewis Powell, the Nixon Supreme Court pick, who laid out this plan enabling a right-wing propaganda apparatus here in the USA. Seems corporations in the 60s were horrified at the women's movement, the anti-war movement (remember Vietnam was fought so the MIC could increase shareholder profits), the civil rights movement, and finally Nader's 'Unsafe at Any Speed,' which FORCED auto manufacturers to put seatbelts in cars (funny how they had to be forced to do that!). They felt an urgent need for a Republican news organ that would spew out their corporate perspective on reality.

This is why we have what we have. Now we are at the abyss. If the American people are as stupid and ignorant and selfish as I suspect they are (as has been proven time and time and time and time again), and the GOP wins the House and Senate, the oligarchs will position the final nail in the coffin of democracy here in 'Murika to be driven in '24. After that there will be no more elections, and we will be on the same trajectory as Germany was in 1933.