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- BriGuy...
The Golden Rule
There's an old joke about The Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. Way back in the pre-Internet days, that usually meant the owner of the printing press determined what got to determine what was or was not published.... - JayCrib...
- Jack Burke...
I agree with most of this, but I won't give the Legacy Media that excuse... They don't have to send a film crew. They should have access to the very best investigative journalists the world has to offer. Send out a couple to look into these things.... I dont have much to say here, but I'm glad we're getting into pop-culture too! I honestly didn't think of this as an epistemic mess that auto-generates polarities until picking this as a topic, so I've grown in my discernment just having asked this question.... - Paulleverich...
Free speech has always come with a built-in paradox. If you truly believe in it, you have to tolerate speech you dislike, disagree with, or even find offensive. Otherwise it isn’t really free speech. It’s just approved speech.... - Cpogue...
Short answer: disinfect this situation with some light. It's very puzzling to me that they simply cannot redact the names of the victims -- which makes me suspect that they can, and that's not who they are protecting....