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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/11/19/fake-news-only-beginning-fcc-votes-let-monopolies-decide-what-local-news-you-see
Guys, remember when we went to war with Eurasia?
Or was it Eastasia?
damn i can't remember
FlUmPiDuMp
1984
sprbwlshuffler
What could possibly go wrong?
16letterd1
I just want america to know that literally every other country is watching in slack-jawed awe
XoxSmotpokerxoX
Sadly some of know this
twight
How many americans nowadays still think USA is the best country in the world? Or has it always been a joke?
WodenEmrys
29% http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/30/most-americans-say-the-u-s-is-among-the-greatest-countries-in-the-world/
McFluffySundae
Republicans always blaming Dems for fake news, then they sign a bill for monopoly news which is even worse. . .
generousmon
At what point can we start calling America fascist? A friend of mine needs to know
DirectorBright
When the government has totalitarian control over the entire economy. Fascism is socioeconomic.
generousmon
Rather, fascism is extreme corporativism. Where the private sector and political sphere are the same party.
DirectorBright
Lmao being downvoted by people who don't know what fascism is. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
Broncopinko
Yeah, this is problematic.
CrimsonSpy
I love how the term “Fake News” started out as a joke to poke fun of Trump.
CmfMttnPpl
This his we get districts, 1-12
HEXADECIMAL
Soon we will have just one media outlet so that we can hear all about the wonderful deeds of Big Brother all day.
liltortatree
Welp time to stock up on more guns and ammo
rusrsdude
It always has been. They're gonna censor everything they don't find appealing. Basically brainwash us and segment our society more..
triedtothinkofausernamethatwasntalreadytaken
You already have them lying to your face even when you clearly see the truth imagine if they can simply control the news
pajamallamadrama
This has already been happening for years in another form. Media agencies are running multiple news networks in multiple cities.
sangatster
Yeah, there's a good Conan O'Brian short on you tube about that. He shows multiple stations repeating the same script.
pajamallamadrama
Oh yeah! I forgot about that!
HOOMANGUY
Remember then people said that voting trump was like voting for the next dictator? Doesn't look so dumb now does it.
SerialChillinSpree
I thought it was Hitler?
kstrtroi
$$$ <-- The reason for everything that ever happened ever.
Arsikere
"never underestimate greed." -a friend of mine
taliesan
Land of the free.... not for much longer it seems
GadenKerensky
It's not even in the top ten most free countries.
GodEmperor0fMankind
IHateAdamSandler
That's what you get for voting Trump
ChrisHemsworthsBulge
Not everyone voted Trump.
IronMarla
We are gonna have so much fucking work to do. :/
TritonPontus
TheBritishAreComing
I find it hilarious that this is talking about fake news and y'all not even asking for an Official FCC source....
Mjolnyr
IMGUR is heavy left leaning. They don't care that John Oliver is the epitome of fake news and is a comedy act, not news at all.
XoxSmotpokerxoX
He is 20 times more accurate than Fox,
Mjolnyr
While major news networks are in a sad state. Claiming that an obvious satire series is more accurate means you need your brain checked.
XoxSmotpokerxoX
And yet there are still more inaccuracies in most Fox news casts over a satire that has fact checking over a spin zone
Mjolnyr
Further evidence that you are in need of a serious reality check. John Oliver himself states it is satire and not meant to be seen as news.
al640814
why is this even up to a vote???
supersomatic
Sounds like a serious issue, but opening an article about biased news coverage with a John Oliver quote is laughably ironic.
imgurStranger
Shhh they think he's centrist
therollercoasterconducteur
America! Let the bold eagle spread it's liberated wings and sing the joyfull tunes of true democrazy!
fign37
That John Oliver piece explains it very well and shows how Sinclair group is Already manipulating local news.
IProvideFakeContext
I greatly enjoy Last Week Tonight. It means heavily left, but John knows and acknowledges that, which means it's fine, because despite
IProvideFakeContext
the viewpoint they tell it from, their pieces are exhaustively researched. They do their jobs very well there.
imgurStranger
Of course any source looks exhaustively researched if you get all of your info from it and don't check its detractors
IProvideFakeContext
Sorry, Ill rephrase what I said, because I kinda missed what I meant to when I commented yesterday (long double shift, I was spent), I do
IProvideFakeContext
really enjoy his show, and by being fine watching it, I meant that I know he leans hard left and keep that in mind when viewing. I shouldve,
ARandomHelljumper
It doesn't help when the detractors just scream "libtard" over and over instead of actually trying to refute it.
IProvideFakeContext
I don't, I get most of my info from newspapers and BBC. Last Week Tonight is just entertainment. Well researched entertainment.
imgurStranger
"Well researched" in that they look hard to prove their opinion, but it's not so generous for inconvenient truths. See my post to CatBlaster
CatBlaster5000
Very well. I challenge you to present information they've falsified.
imgurStranger
I'll deliver. I wrote this in response to Oliver's "exhaustive" comparison of Trump and Hillary's scandals pre-election, link in next post
UndulatingTerrain
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Pandragun
This is why the only news I give a shit about, is the stuff posted on MMO-Champ about WoW.
hatefulonlytomyself
As rapped by Hamilton. "There will be a revolution in this century."
XoxSmotpokerxoX
Lol
Gilganesha
There should be. As an outsider, I've been shocked more than once by the politics of the US. You seriously need to change things, and soon
Mavgurian
Canada in the near future: "Sorry, we cannot allow you to be so mean to each other. Assemble the Moose Riders, ready the Polar Bears!!!"
sangatster
I love you Canada!
IOnlyPostThatOneGorillaGif
CAN I MOVE THERE? PLEASE? YOU GUYS GOT BETTER HEALTH CARE AND SNOW
The1GoodTomato
This is what happens when you give republicans all the power.
Arsikere
this didn't happen overnight. this isn't one party or the other- it's constant lobbying
Vockstar
TigerThong
but it clearly is. Democrats keept net neutrality. R comes to town and its sailing through ez pz. Stop lying to yourself
XoxSmotpokerxoX
"Derp I vote for the individual and don't support two parties" ------- fucking idiots
HighFunctioningAlcoholic
Ya, fuck people that vote for Susan Collins, right?
XoxSmotpokerxoX
Congrats, you can name one that doesn't have their head up their ass.
HighFunctioningAlcoholic
Fine, fuck it, let's vote the party line in a non-parliamentary democracy. Great solution buddy. Voting for the outliers is a good thing.
XoxSmotpokerxoX
Fine, fuck it, let's pretend we don't know how things get done.
anakhasilver
Except it's exactly what led to Trump being in power. It's a shitty situation, yeah, but you have to be realistic.
HighFunctioningAlcoholic
Let's have the South vote 100% on the evangelical tea part ballot and the the north and coasts vote on the we know better than you ballot.
XoxSmotpokerxoX
How much of the south can't even fucking read. It's like 1 in 4 in Alabama, and your fucking argument is they should have a say in shit.
SnickerMyKnickers
Can we vote to just get rid of the FCC? It seems like they do more harm than good now
TigerThong
Regulatory capture. Republicans are beholden to their donors. and the populace never punishes them
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Depends on which party the President belongs to. FCC under Obama voted to protect Net Neutrality. Trump's FCC chair wants to take it away.
XoxSmotpokerxoX
It's almost like one party represents asshats
SmellingThePsychosphere
"Trump's FCC chair" is an Obama appointee. But hey, let's keep the "MY SIDE GOOD, YOUR SIDE BAD" thing going. Super productive.
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Pai was appointed to the committee because by law Obama HAD to appoint a Republican. Trump appointed Pai as chair, not Obama.
IUpvoteScience
Ajit Pai is a scumbag
TigerThong
90% of republicans.
XoxSmotpokerxoX
%99.9
tzxAzrael
he's just another corporate suit, doing the things to get by in the world we let them build.
screamingwinemaker
I wonder how much$ in kickbacks he'll get if his shitty argument is accepted by the courts?!
pizzapartyhard
But his Reeses mug!
Sentay
Can someone please assassinate him already.
Golfbob
Sweet mother, sweet mother send your child unto me...
EClaire1073
Only the good die young.
tzxAzrael
right, so another corporate clone can step into his place, and find a more subtle way to do the whole deal
mindstorm8191
People need to do more than complain to their politicians. They need to teach them things that truly matter; influence them to be better ppl
tzxAzrael
if they were "better people" they wouldn't have become politicians.
mindstorm8191
That problem isn't going to fix itself, now is it?
tlouman
Give him the reek treatment and make him your pawn (reek from game of thrones, theon greyjoy)
ChildOfThanatos13
When i was a kid America seemed like such an awesome place, even dreamed of living there. Nowadays you'd need to pay me to go live there
AngryRaven
I honestly wish i had even the first clue how to expatriate and not die homeless in the streets in a foreign country.
IronMarla
This makes me unspeakably sad. :/
JHawke
Same, and it would need to be an obscenely big number.
TigerThong
as an american im considering leaving. but as an american i feel its my duty to fight he good fight.
Inappropesmagotes
Well yeah, that staying alive shit is getting expensive.
KayeFaye80
Monopolies… isn’t that illegal here? Though considering how we already have a market resembling an oligopoly....
Arsikere
censorship has become privatized
marsgoose
If you look into it every single monopoly in US is formed trough some kind of special favors regulation.
VenDei
Capitalism trends to monopolies. Which gov't should regulate to keep from happening. But when you look there... oh, and regulation is evil.
TooDumbToCare
As long as it's not nation or stat ewide, it's probably not even going to count as a monopoly.
mindstorm8191
Yeah, just the same way that I can only get 1 cable service here. Move 30 mins away I get to choose a different service
Ivain
move another 30 mins away and you don't get to choose, but at least its AT&T instead of Comcast, right? Honestly, it's shocking
SerialChillinSpree
They are. But they exist. I would say goggle is a monopoly. Plus, any major cable company, cause what? there is like 3 of them now?
Zyrixion
Monopolies are only illegal if you don't pay off the politicians.
TigerThong
yep and the FCC should be guarding against it. but like Trumps cabinet its all regulatory capture. really seems like a ruskie agent
JayEnfield
Anti-trust is very tricky in an environment where money is voice is votes is power is law.
axelfive
Oligarchy.
Metallica93
I wonder how far we've shifted away from democratic republic to actual oligarchy. I feel like political science would say we're close.
WorkaholicGifsForEveryReply
Courts barely enforce it anymore.
HighFunctioningAlcoholic
Very untrue.
dragonherder
The DOJ occasionally does antitrust stuff. I've yet to see people taken to court for straight up monopoly stuff in my life time.
AlkeneThiol
The laws are enforced arbitrarily based on politics and corporate backscratching.
SonOfKazar
Your country is fucky,
imgurStranger
"Home of the Brave, what a crock!" writes the Canuck who got fined for not calling his son's teacher by xir proper pronouns
Donnicton
Yup, and given the worldly power corporations have(East India wished they were this powerful), you can bet your ass this will only spread.
HeavenOrHellLetsRock
Al those companies have barely any power anywhere else. So no it wont.
GSCultist
The EU buried a report saying that piracy didn't harm the sales of films, games or films at the behest of the music industry.
HeavenOrHellLetsRock
Thats not even 1/10th of the shit they get away with in the US.
yoshiko3
Yeah, but the media collusion outlined here is already happening everywhere.
Saxxon92
At least in australia its just the wildlife making it hard
marsgoose
So is yours, no exceptions.
StonerCatJay
Kill me please
chudtime
Actually our country is just plain ol fucked
ILiekToCookAndBake
Right in the hoohah.
MadBudderKing
Actually it's been fucked in the ass
MelodiousDissonance
I'm pretty sure we are up to double penetration by now, if not something kinkier.
imgurStranger
At least we don't have gangs raping and pimping thousands of our girls and the police covering it up bcuz they dont want to be racist
imgurStranger
Are those girls and their families really "free"?
MET4LL1FE
who what when where why?
imgurStranger
Rotherham UK, pakis rape young girls and get away with it for years b/c police dont want to be racist
TristenIngramforleeroyjenkins
.....wat?
imgurStranger
Rotherham UK, pakis rape young girls and get away with it for years b/c police dont want to be racist
TristenIngramforleeroyjenkins
Source? Or you just a mumbling idiot?
chudtime
Go back to your Russian troll farm comrade
imgurStranger
TIL bringing up inconvenient events gets you called a russian troll in babby leftist safe spaces
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chudtime
It's spelled baby. And one look at your profile is all I needed to see to go to that conclusion
Lukaznid
First world that is not America, FUCK YEAH!
MartiNowak
OriginaIPoster
It's fucky everywhere
imgurStranger
"So much for land of the free!" Writes the Brit whose neighbor got arrested for tweeting about muslims
FrancoUnAmerican
Yup but it'll affect all of us...
TigerThong
our electorate is brainwashed and or retarded. They keep voting republican even after successful democratic leader ship paved the way.
bigassdolphin
Please husband me so I can move to yours. I'll be your housekeeper until the visa goes through.
thexian
My apartment is kinda small, but you can't sleep under my bed if you want.
bigassdolphin
Just leave me an extra pillow and a place to throw out my liquor bottles.
NomDeImguerre
Their nation is imploding.
MDavidsonJutland
Large amounts of fucky.
GoldFrieza
The only unusual thing is that the media is controlled by a few companies. In many countries the media is controlled by the government
arrbos
So obviously, "gee, that's a great idea, let's take it private sector"
stronomer
Indeed. But in many countries a lot of media is owned by The People (i.e. funded through taxes). So: support you NPR!
Rasdwatrium
So when in German stuff like Die Anstalt, Heute Show, Extra3 (funded by tax money) critize the government in all branches, then...?
PsycheClone
Basically what Fox news is aspiring to.
GoldFrieza
It's what they all aspire to.
jokihamsteri
There is a huge difference if the media is funded by the tax money or controlled by the government. Don't get these mixed up.
inspiringandfunnyusernamecoolheh
Land of the unfree
Lambast
Nah, just Land of Dreams...
MDavidsonJutland
I thought you wrote "Land of the buttfucked" and i thought it was still appropriate.
Misplacedtesticle
SKPY
land of subscriptions and prescriptions
Mavgurian
"Arbeit macht frei" ring a bell?
60FPSDoggo
So hitler was a country?
Jjtazman
help
dickwaffles
Isn't this why ya'll have guns? How is this not tyranny
JuggernaughtJoe
To protect from all foreign and domestic.
QuotablePoots
Holy shit, simply put, but still scared the shit out of me.
CatBlaster5000
"It's just a little tyrany"
MetalCuresHeadaches
Because the same population segment that would take arms against the government lean the same direction politically and don't see an issue.
dickwaffles
But the ones who are not in the same direction politically have access to guns too, no?
Gasnia
The liberal side tends to hate guns because they think they bring violence so they are actually the ones trying to ban them.
Vault101survivor
They keep assuming people will allow the things to happen quietly with acceptance. I guess they have another thing coming...
Arsikere
"the slow creep"
HieronymousFlex
If you think people will get off their asses and do anything about this, you're extremely naive.
Jagergeist
Based on the huge amount of Americans that are indifferent and apathetic to their government, it's a rather safe assumption.
GadenKerensky
I worry they do. I do hope that, if nothing else, a sort of revolution occurs. Then CEOs and their boards won't be safe.
hungitalianohwaitthisisntgrindr
do you really see that happening? i mean, that would be great. but i don’t see how.
GadenKerensky
The only way how would be to try and band people together, rile up support. But that would get you labelled a terrorist.
hungitalianohwaitthisisntgrindr
or unamerican. or liberal because you don’t support a far right, shitty corporate power over your country.
GadenKerensky
I'm Australian, but I know that America's problems affect everyone in the west, and more. If America collapses... everyone suffers for it.
Shoutrr
remember your 2nd amendment ? yeah apparently it's just so people who love gun can get guns, and not to defend against your government.
Gawky
you know what the government got, predator drones, artillery, tanks, NSA and a militarized police with armored cars
XoxSmotpokerxoX
Lmao if you think a militia can go against a modern military
Shoutrr
it was sarcasm.people loving their 2nd amendment and claiming it's so they can defend against their govmnt are a bunch of idiots/hypocrits .
Shoutrr
their governement doesn't need to use violence to fuck them, they just have to make it look like whoever is against a law they pass is
Shoutrr
american/freedom hating. The fun fact is that it's republicans that do it the most.
MachineGunJeanMaurice
Doubleplusgood!
BeavisTheMeavis
2+2=5
ImTheReasonYourSocksAreAlwaysMissing
Wanted to let you know I got the orwell reference but Im too drunk to come up with a witty response so you get this comment instead. yaaaaay
CandidGamera
Aah, good old Victory Gin, eh?
elizardo
Wanted to let you know i enjoyed your comment but im too stoned to reply with any witticisms so you get this comment instead. Whooaaaaa
CandidGamera
No, no! 1984 has no bearing here, see, that described a communist dystopia, but the US are a capitalist democracy, so it's okay! Also, in ->
CandidGamera
<-1984, it was the government controlling information, it's totally fine if private corporations do it! Civics 101! Remember, even if we do>
CandidGamera
Thecogwheel
I know this is all a joke, but isn't the government in 1984 kinda an odd hybrid of fascism / communism. Like it was made vague to show any
Thecogwheel
Government is capable of the events depicted?
ConfirmologistUK
how many gulags do you have in america?
ZombieJonSnow
It only took hitler 5 years of total propoganda control to have the population take part in their first pogrom. Lets see how this 1 goes...
IProvideFakeContext
There's Godwin's Law.
ZombieJonSnow
Its not a comparison to hitler so much as it is a comparison to the damage government control of your news & media can be.
IProvideFakeContext
It is literally the dictionary definition of a comparison. You were using Hitler as an example as to why we should avoid going down this
IProvideFakeContext
road. I don't even have a problem with it, I was just pointing out that Godwin's Law has indeed been fulfilled. Im of a similar mindset as
IProvideFakeContext
well that were falling into the problem that many other declining civilization s experienced before us.
Septagon
The Godwin’s law excuse sort of falls apart when you have Nazis In the news again.
IProvideFakeContext
No it doesn't, a Law is just a Law. It is universally true, and will never change. Never said I had a problem with what was said, just
IProvideFakeContext
that Godwin's Law has been fulfilled. I imagine we'll see it even more often in days to come.
CockRaptor
That's such an absurd comparison to make
Mavgurian
Time will tell.
AnAsOfYetUnidentifiedIndividual
A bold comparison, but honestly something at least somewhat comparable could happen.
imgurStranger
what if... what if... what if it is happening but to the people you hate? What if you are the one being brainwashed?
ZombieJonSnow
Brainwashing isnt what happened. Brainwashing isnt real.
AnAsOfYetUnidentifiedIndividual
ERMAGERD
Undeity
You'd like to think, wouldn't you? I doubt that the citizens of Germany were fully aware of the implications at the time, either.
ZombieJonSnow
You are correct sir. But the ones who were moved out for the most part. They called it the brain drain.