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Old 01-10-2017, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by whell View Post
There's no reasoning with you on this. You've staked out your position which appears to be this:

- we need a "filter" for news.
- the filter needs to be an arm of government.
- it doesn't seem to bother you that such a filter could, and probably would, be used for political purposes.
- the 1st Amendment of the US constitution was SPECIFICALLY intended to protect freedom of POLITICAL speech and the press. However, if you don't like to don't particularly agree with the content of such speech or press, the government should filter it, 1st Amendment be damned.
- The internet should be subject to government control.
- Even though there is no evidence that Russian efforts / hacking had any impact on the election...ZIP, ZERO, NADA...., we must take action which could have long term negative consequences on individual freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
- The average person is obviously too stupid to protect themselves from "fake news", and folks like you must take action to "protect them".
- Mainstream media sources are not capable of bias and can and should be trusted, even though recent evidence demonstrates that mainstream media is certainly capable of distortions, errors, and and bias.
- You and the left own the definition of "fake news", and resent any implication that mainstream news sources are just and capable of writing, printing and broadcasting BS (a.k.a fake news) as any other news source.

I think that about sums up the content of posts on this topic so far.
Again, you missed the point of my objection to your thread in which you tried to conflate fake news with real news critical of your Trumpenfuhrer or his agenda. I have never once called for a government filter, but remain critical of Trump, Flynn and people like you spreading fake news after it caused one of my preferred pizza joints to be shot up by a lunatic with a filter about as good as yours (and Trump's and Flynn's).

I guess there's no hope for someone like you who feels Breitbart, InfoWars and talk radio represent real news and the the Post is fake. Ignorance is bliss, and if your ignorance keeps you happy, more power to you.
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