Are we just expected to have no media at all then or what?
>Survey finds majority in favour of restricting media that spread misinformation
People *say* they oppose misinformation. They actually *don’t.*
The two most sold papers in the UK are The Sun and The Daily Mail. These two papers publish absurd amount of lies. They accused a member of parliament, Christopher Mullin, of being part of a terrorist cell, because he supported wrongly convicted Irishmen (Birmingham Six). They claimed the Queen voted for Brexit. They blamed the victims of the Liverpool Hillsborough disaster for causing it and accused the survivors of pickpocketing the dead. Yet these two papers remain fantastically popular.
The most popular TV Channel in the USA is Fox News. Out of all TV channel, this is the favorite of americans. A scientific study found people who watch Fox News are *less informed* than people who watch no news at all. [(1)](http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/)
The most popular newspaper in the United States is the Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch (Fox News). It has published a stunning amount of disinformation, compared to any other major newspaper. For instance, they publishes dozens of pieces from people linked to the oil industry, calling climate change a lie. [(2)](https://grist.org/climate-skeptics/the-wall-street-journals-willful-climate-lies/). I can tell you The Financial Times would have refused. WSJ doesn’t mind. They published an open letter by 16 scientists claiming climate change is bullshit. Then they refused an open letter from 250 scientists at the National Academy of Science calling out their lies [(3)](https://grist.org/climate-skeptics/wsj-will-publish-literally-anything-as-long-as-it-disputes-global-warming/). Again, the Financial Times would have never done that because it would breach their integrity rules. WSJ doesn’t mind.
The most popular TV show in France is “Balance ton Post” by Cyril Hanouna. The show discusses the french news. It’s been accused encouraging hatred of homosexuals, encouraging hatred of women, spreading racist rumors, inviting fake cops, calling for extrajudicial executions, spreading all kind of lies and filth. The host of the show, Cyril Hanouna, was sentenced numerous times by courts for defamation. Cyril Hanouna was also sentenced for asking people to touch his d*** through his pants. This garbage show remains a huge success and a lot of people get their news from it.
There is a gap between what people say they want and what people really want.
Don’t tell me let me guess. Misinformation is anything those people don’t agree with ?
“Let’s let the gov decide what is true and what is not”
People only want information that feeds their narrative.
Now find out what those people mean by “misinformation”
Chances are it’s just “anything I disagree with”
So: _majority in favour of restricting media they don’t like_
The lessons of history tell us that such laws would never, ever be abused by authoritarians who seek to forcefully impose their will upon others. The Soviet Union’s press published nothing but the truth. After all, “misinformation” had been banned by the CPSU!
The issue is determining what is misinformation.
Surprise surprise, criticizing the ruling party or talking about corporate conflicts of interest is now misinformation.
Number 10 will shock you !
And then people wonder how governments get away with censorship…
Disgusting
And severely punishing their CEOs, one hopes.
Restricting media? Sure sounds like nothing else ever done in history before … as much as I hate baseless propaganda, letting the government decide what’s misinformation and what’s not is a shit idea lmao
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Are we just expected to have no media at all then or what?
>Survey finds majority in favour of restricting media that spread misinformation
People *say* they oppose misinformation. They actually *don’t.*
The two most sold papers in the UK are The Sun and The Daily Mail. These two papers publish absurd amount of lies. They accused a member of parliament, Christopher Mullin, of being part of a terrorist cell, because he supported wrongly convicted Irishmen (Birmingham Six). They claimed the Queen voted for Brexit. They blamed the victims of the Liverpool Hillsborough disaster for causing it and accused the survivors of pickpocketing the dead. Yet these two papers remain fantastically popular.
The most popular TV Channel in the USA is Fox News. Out of all TV channel, this is the favorite of americans. A scientific study found people who watch Fox News are *less informed* than people who watch no news at all. [(1)](http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2011/knowless/)
The most popular newspaper in the United States is the Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch (Fox News). It has published a stunning amount of disinformation, compared to any other major newspaper. For instance, they publishes dozens of pieces from people linked to the oil industry, calling climate change a lie. [(2)](https://grist.org/climate-skeptics/the-wall-street-journals-willful-climate-lies/). I can tell you The Financial Times would have refused. WSJ doesn’t mind. They published an open letter by 16 scientists claiming climate change is bullshit. Then they refused an open letter from 250 scientists at the National Academy of Science calling out their lies [(3)](https://grist.org/climate-skeptics/wsj-will-publish-literally-anything-as-long-as-it-disputes-global-warming/). Again, the Financial Times would have never done that because it would breach their integrity rules. WSJ doesn’t mind.
The most popular TV show in France is “Balance ton Post” by Cyril Hanouna. The show discusses the french news. It’s been accused encouraging hatred of homosexuals, encouraging hatred of women, spreading racist rumors, inviting fake cops, calling for extrajudicial executions, spreading all kind of lies and filth. The host of the show, Cyril Hanouna, was sentenced numerous times by courts for defamation. Cyril Hanouna was also sentenced for asking people to touch his d*** through his pants. This garbage show remains a huge success and a lot of people get their news from it.
There is a gap between what people say they want and what people really want.
Don’t tell me let me guess. Misinformation is anything those people don’t agree with ?
“Let’s let the gov decide what is true and what is not”
People only want information that feeds their narrative.
Now find out what those people mean by “misinformation”
Chances are it’s just “anything I disagree with”
So: _majority in favour of restricting media they don’t like_
The lessons of history tell us that such laws would never, ever be abused by authoritarians who seek to forcefully impose their will upon others. The Soviet Union’s press published nothing but the truth. After all, “misinformation” had been banned by the CPSU!
The issue is determining what is misinformation.
Surprise surprise, criticizing the ruling party or talking about corporate conflicts of interest is now misinformation.
Number 10 will shock you !
And then people wonder how governments get away with censorship…
Disgusting
And severely punishing their CEOs, one hopes.
Restricting media? Sure sounds like nothing else ever done in history before … as much as I hate baseless propaganda, letting the government decide what’s misinformation and what’s not is a shit idea lmao
Mostly comments seems to mix opinions and facts.
Be careful, this can backfire really hard.