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Soundwave on 29 June 2017
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TH3-D0S3R said:
Nem said:

It's freedom of speach. You can't just forcibly shut them up. That's fascism. 

Quite honestly what is going on in the US atm and the attack that is beeing made to the media is a fascist attack. I would worry about that.

The difference here is that what people on TV say isn't the truth. Want to force them to tell the truth? Don't give them credit, don't watch them, make fun of them for beeing ridiculous. Like, this kind of thing only happen in the US. In the coutries i've lived in, any ridiculous claims are treated as ridiculous ones. They are pointed and left at and they lose all credibility. Be it polititians or anyone else.

I agree, but at the same time freedom of speech has limits. There are two examples that stand out to me, and that is inciting violence (i.e. Kathy Griffin), and misleading those with something that can threaten their well being. If you go to an airport yelling I have a bomb at the top of your lungs, you won't be heralded for freedom of speech. Just because you can say what you want doesn't mean there shouldn't be consequences for where you're saying it.

That being said, what CNN is doing (based on their Supposed 'Credentials') is wrong as all hell. They promote themselves as 'real news', but openly lie to mislead and pander to their base that just wants to hear something that sounds good to them. CNN promotes themselves as true, and yet they purposely go out of their way to lie about stories in order to garner attention, good or bad. They manipulate the Constitution to say oh we have freedom of the press, while not realizing what the point of freedom of the press is, to expose THE TRUTH, where it may not be known. Don't like the media being under attack, well, maybe they shouldn't lie about stories for views. It's not the facists fault the media is getting exposed, it's the corrupt media. Supposed 'facists' don't hate the media because what they report goes against their values, they hate it because all they report is lying garbage. If the media wants to be taken seriously, it needs to clean house and make a platform for both sides to have a coherrent and logical debate. Until then, we're stuck with the lying machines.

The Russia story is not a "made up story". There is a legitimate investigation going on about it. Maybe CNN is pushing the story hard, but that doesn't make it a "fake" story. 

Secondly, all of you now crying about this are hypocrites if you said nothing about how Fox News treated president Obama for 8 years or the hysteria over stupid emails that got Trump elected in the first place. 

Seems to me like the issue really is Trump can't handle it when he is the target.