Monday, December 11, 2017

Cartoon Illustrates Brutal Nature of Censorship In 2017

HILARIOUS: Guess What Two Words CNN Now Wants to Ban? — by Regan Pifer

CNN is just wonderful. They always provide me with a wonderful dose of daily humor. I don’t even need to read the comics anymore.

What is today’s daily dose?

CNN, the same news organization that moans about Trump’s “non-stop bashing of the liberal network” and claims that he is “running roughshod over the First Amendment,” now wants to ban words.

Censorship. Banning words. Making speech…illegal.

Right? Is this not hysterical?

By the way, let us read the First Amendment together:

The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices. It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government.

Soooo…President Trump actually isn’t taking away any rights away from CNN.

He is actually exercising his First Amendment rights.

He can critique whatever news source he wants.

CNN isn’t breaking the law. Trump isn’t breaking the law.

The two of them just don’t like each other.

But you know what does keep one from speaking freely?

Banning words.

According to The Daily Wire:

CNN now wants to forget all that stuff about “freedom of speech” (see, that only applies to liberals — anyone else needs to be shut down ASAP).

“Ban the term ‘fake news’,” says the headline of a Sunday post on CNN.com. The story was so weighty it took two people to write it: Hossein Derakhshan, a writer and researcher “on the socio-political impacts of new media technologies,” CNN says, and Claire Wardle, a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy […]

[T]he writers think someone somewhere should be policing the news to decide what gets printed and what doesn’t — or at the very least, what we all call said news.

CNN first blames President Trump, then blames the words “fake news” as well as social media.

They write:

We live in a time when our information streams are polluted and there are many different types of information. They move and shift. Some types are visible; others are harder to spot. Some we would all agree are problematic — manipulated images created during a breaking news event, for example, designed to confuse and to hoax. But what about satirical news websites? What about misleading headlines designed solely to drive traffic? We need to rethink our vocabulary.

They then ask “So what can be done? The truth is there are no easy solutions.”

So, I guess we just censor.

That makes sense.

Or maybe, CNN, you stop crying because other news outlets are calling you out on your liberal media brainwashing.

Maybe you expect more from Americans that they will not consume whatever they see (like they have done with you for so long) and actually step back and use critical thinking skills.

No, liberals wouldn’t do that.

They will decide what you see, when you see, and why you see it.

They will police and determine what gets printed.

Yeah, that sounds like freedom to me…

*Scooby-Doo head tilt*

No, not really.

That is taking away Constitutional rights.



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