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Bowman Cutter's avatar

Joe is right here. And to call this making the issue partisan is to miss the point of everything I don’t believe the former R party is in favor of jailing journalists or wrecking democracy. The Trump party is in favor of both. To call this a partisan comment is to make the survival of democracy in America a l partisan squabble.

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Clive Pinder's avatar

My thesis, as a commentator and previously elected representative is that the threat to in the U.S. and liberal democracies everywhere IS due almost entirely to toxic partisanship which leads directly to a democratic deficit. Just look at the issue of incumbency, voter participation and the lack of transparency in government as just three very obvious examples of that.

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Clive Pinder's avatar

I agree we should be outraged, but making this a partisan issue seems short-sighted. All sides of the political elite seem determined to censor media and journalism.

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Forrest Laws's avatar

Please provide an example of where the Biden administration has threatened to take away the broadcast licenses of the major news networks?

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Clive Pinder's avatar

Today ‘the media’ stretches way beyond the tentacles and imagination of ‘major news networks’. Exhibit No.1 - The Biden Administration’s attempt to censor social media networks.

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Forrest Laws's avatar

Censor or ask them to take down lies?

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Clive Pinder's avatar

Are we seriously still debating these issues. Here are a few examples that I personally was censored for. That the source of the pandemic may have been a lab leak. That the forecasted ‘excess death rate’ was vastly over estimated. That the virus “spread in open air”. That the transmission started well before anyone ever thought. I could go on. These were not “lies”. They were a clarion call to the fact that REAL science is NEVER settled. A clarion call that was clearly censored by both main stream and social media.

However, if you need more examples of the Biden Administration’s attempt to censor the media do a Google search on the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop!

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