Thursday, October 31, 2019
@Jack does the right thing
Via BBC, @Jack has decided to ban ALL paid political ads.
It's not credible for us to say: 'We're working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want!Zuck has taken the opposite path, with typical idiotic hypocrisy. "In a democracy, I don't think it's right for private companies to censor politicians or the news." I suppose his precise statement is technically correct by rigorous symbolic logic. Democracy doesn't exist, so Facebook's total one-sided censorship is just fine. @Jack is doing the right thing. He has basically rejuvenated the old Fairness Doctrine for public carriers. The Fairness Doctrine worked. It's easy for propagandists to mock the FD. I've been listening exclusively to pre-1960 radio and TV for many years now. I realized that the FD gave us better entertainment with much less sneaky propaganda. Entertainers had to avoid stirring up division and chaos. They had to confine their routines to broad commentaries on human nature. The FCC was listening carefully, and the FCC was hair-trigger ready to pull your license if you broke the rule.
Labels: Entertainment, From rights to duties
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