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A French Inquiry...
"Did you ehhhhhh.... do ze crime?"
"Non"
"Par Excellence! Time for some coffee and cigarettes!"
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Them: Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard
Us: Free Palestine
Them: Terrorist!
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Trump dismantles anything he has no control over, pure dictator behaviour
He literally has control over it though.
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He literally has control over it though.
I guess there was a miss-understanding.
What I meant was this:
He has either control over content that is published by an entity (like e.g. a network) or he dismantles it.
Or do you disagree to that too?
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While being the biggest pusher of propaganda in US history.
And VOA was only "propaganda" when you consider objective information to be "propaganda", like dumbfuck Trumpers do.
Since 1976 the Charter and later the 1994 International Broadcasting Act legally forbid government officials from dictating content. Don't worry about facts, though.
Trump himself tried to make it a propaganda outlet, doing the exact opposite of what you credit him for. He put Michael Pack in charge who sidelined editors, froze visas for foreign reporters and scrapped long‑standing “fire‑wall” rules that protect editorial independence.
The word "propaganda" is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn't always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That's why it's funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.
Government officials don't need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.
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A French Inquiry...
"Did you ehhhhhh.... do ze crime?"
"Non"
"Par Excellence! Time for some coffee and cigarettes!"
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No, it's not. Free speech protects what you say from the government, not your employer. Your employer ALSO has free speech, meaning they can decide what can and can't be said on their property.
This is like saying Sesame Street doesn't show hardcore porn and that's a violation of free speech.
Based on your response, I'm not sure you even read my questions.
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The US Administration, more importantly a branch of the department of state, condemns French inquiry.
A lot of the USA are cheering the French on.
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A French Inquiry...
"Did you ehhhhhh.... do ze crime?"
"Non"
"Par Excellence! Time for some coffee and cigarettes!"
I hear cigarettes have ironically fallen out of popularity in France, despite it being seen as culturally significant in the past.
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Now defend it from domestic one.
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Be that as it may, Trump is trying to dismantle it.
Oh I forgot the Blue MAGA mantra: "anything the opposition does is automatically bad"
When they say water is wet you have to deny it.
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The shibboleth in question
Pretending there are none - that it's a society without in-groups, with social mobility.
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Wrong. It opposed Naziism and Soviet Union misinformation. Since then it's been a standard journalism outlet that, by law, could not be dictated by US politicians.
Thanks CIA operative, it is no secret it has always been a propaganda outlet from your CIA bosses trying to stir up shit in countries they don't control.
And the US has never been against nazis, supported them plenty of times before during and after WW2. -
Colbert didn’t go to prison
I'm sure Colbert's on the list somewhere.
You are on my list. So what? Neither of you are in prison.
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Why is this downvoted? It correctly point out what "free speech" actually means.
It's a visceral reaction, my guess. It's exactly the same argument that right wingers used when oreilly, carlson, etc got canceled.
Not paying someone millions for saying stuff on TV is not infringing on free speech, now apparently it's leftists turn to not understand it.
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US condemns....
Good. That means you're doing the right thing. Keep doing it.
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Twitter only allows nazi speech now.
