Date: June 30, 2021
“Krystal and Saagar talk about newly released information that could shake up the Julian Assange case, which nobody in mainstream media would dare to cover.”
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Date: June 30, 2021
“Krystal Ball exposes the hypocrites on the left and right on the issue of cancel culture”
I’ve been saying this exact same thing for years…The religious right have an extremely aggressive history, of pushing cancel culture…Heck, do you ever take a stroll through their comments sections and see all the bitching and moaning about having to acknowledge other people’s existence and listen to their thoughts?
I cannot even begin to say, how many times I’ve seen it wished that all representation of “X people” be wiped clean from the media and public…intolerance towards even allowing other people to be themselves in public.
Some have expressed extremely violent notions, in regards to this.
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Date: June 30, 2021
“Good news: YouTube reinstated the channel, but only after outrage. There has to be a better way.”
As far as free speech on YouTube goes…It may be legally true, that YouTube can behave as a publisher and decide on who’s content stays…
…But I’ve always taken the view, that if a platform is going to allow viewpoints expressed on any one subject, they have a moral and ethical obligation to allow diverse responses to it.
Way too often, I’ve seen extreme content on YouTube which dehumanizes, threatens, encourages suicide and violence against MAPs…and spreads a whole lot of disinformation about MAPs…Yet, if you are a MAP and even just respond with a level, honest and supported rebuttal…it is you who is likely to get censored…possibly even having your account terminated.
That is dead wrong.
The principle and practice of free speech is absolutely vital.
If YouTube is going to refuse allowing rebuttals to this type of abusive, terrorizing content…they should at least not allow that form of content in the first place…Even more so, since it blatantly violates YouTube’s terms of service.
It says everything about YouTube, and the real relevance of it’s terms of service [rules and policies], when they actively allow their platform to be saturated with this type of content…and they wont even allow decent people to stand up against it.
I am against censoring discussion of social and personal issues, period…and this is a discussion which needs to take place on a societal level.
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Date: June 30, 2021
“Another rich guy with enemies has been found dead in his jail cell from an apparent suicide.”
A bit late acknowledging this.
Not really sure what to say about this one.
I know he resurfaced a handful of times, from some controversy…but I paid little attention to him.
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Date: June 29, 2021
“Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tells Andrea Mitchell that he’s “tired of talking about Mr. Manchin and Miss Sinema” when it comes to abolishing the filibuster to pass bills, including voting rights with a simple majority. When asked, he tells Andrea that there’s no bipartisan compromise to be had on voting rights that would overcome the filibuster, because he doesn’t believe that there are Republicans in the Senate “prepared to vote to support democracy and voting rights I would love to seen them, there aren’t any. That’s the sad reality.”
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