Brendan Carr’s contempt for the First Amendment is going strong.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I thought this party was going to “legalize comedy”? I thought they were going to be warriors for “free speech” and against “cancel culture”?

    AFAIK, not one Confederate has ever really been cancelled.

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    During the Biden years they had dozens of prominent right wing talk shows that are still around that regularly just pump out the nastiest shit to either make light of, diminish or dismiss the deaths of many people. No one ever said a thing about those aholes.

    A right winger is killed by another right winger and the government goes and blames an imagined left and use it as an excuse to censor everyone.

    What a bunch of whiny idiots.

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      7 months ago

      That’s because the Democratic Party and its leadership were molded by and are part of the same political swamp. They’re not enemies, they’re friends with the fascists.

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    Whether the censorship is by government or by political party it should be unacceptable, seeing as his comment was not actually import taste at all, in fact it was calling out what was important, trying to score political points off of the murder for other reasons.

    Running censorship through a private entity does not make it okay.

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      I’ve read elsewhere that he was spreading misinformation – specifically that is was a MAGA that shot Kirk. which,

      1] it is opinion about Trump and MAGA’s reaction, not making a statement about the shooter themself.

      2] even if he was, it’s opinion based on what he knew

      3] even if it’s wrong, it’s free speech

      4] even if it’s a lie (ie he knows its wrong), that’s still constitutionally protected. Fox News even went to the supreme court to protect their right to lie.

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        Even if it were an intentional lie, both Fox News personalities and the administrated were already on record with more serious lies about the same thing. Where are their cancellations?

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    7 months ago

    Lawsuit incoming. This will be a slam dunk in all of the courts except one. Guess which one.

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      7 months ago

      The fact that nobody can tell this is satire, says so much about how fucking dystopian things have gotten.

      Holy shit.

      Does anyone seriously believe that Disney would intentionally create a video, in any capacity where a character says they’re going to suck someone’s dick?

      Don’t get me wrong, this is funny as all hell, but quite clearly satire.