Leftist arguments can’t carry the day on their own. Media personalities and “journalists” are too lazy to make cogent arguments in any case. Censorship is what they have left. They can’t let people see certain information because people may believe it. And you already know what information has to be censured. Do you remember when the media was just supposed to report facts and let the readers decide what was right or wrong or whatever? The media have become political and social activists deciding what information readers should see so that readers’ ideas on issues can be shaped in a certain way.
Christian Toto:
“…Social media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter promised a new era of unfettered information, bypassing traditional media gatekeepers in the process.
People could decide for themselves what mattered most, echoing the country’s democratic ideals.
Instead, we’re now seeing tech platforms following legacy media’s lead, sometimes literally, in deciding what information we can and cannot see.
New York Times reporter Davey Alba coaxed YouTube to remove a video by Aytu BioScience regarding a possible UV light treatment for COVID19 because it “backs up Trump’s idea … that UV rays kill coronavirus.”
The video site deemed the information “violated its community guidelines.”…
…New and old media, once at odds for audience share and cultural relevance, are frequently acting in unison. And it’s happening during a critical election year while a pandemic runs rampant across the globe, the facts of which remain in near constant flux.
Author and Daily Wire podcaster Andrew Klavan savaged Big Tech for deciding what information we can and cannot have at our disposal.
“The difference is not between good and bad information … we need all the information so we can decide,” Klavan said on his April 29 podcast. “YouTube has no business censoring anybody. This distrust of the people, this idea that these experts know what they’re doing and the people are fools, it’s just wrong. We need all the information and we need to hear debate.”