US Election

Nasty piece of work, and a trailblazer for the many US broadcasters who now routinely abuse their supposedly sacred right to free speech. No surprise to learn that he's also a massive hypocrite.

 

Scenes.

 

Tucker Carlson is in prime position to step in.

 

Step in what, dogshit?

 

Yeah, he really should follow in his footsteps...

 

He took so many painkillers that he went deaf.

 

What does everyone think of Facebook switching off the news in Australia? BBC reporting that people are "furious" but sometimes i have to take the BBC world news reporting with a pinch of salt.

 

U wot m8?

 

It was on SKY News as well today, they did interviews with people in Australia and they are not happy! I didn't catch entirely what had occurred but it was along the same lines as you have said the BBC are reporting. I think it's something to do with FB being requested to pay for jounalism, as they place news feed on their platform. Maybe someone else can explain it all better...

 

I think that we should copy whatever legislation has caused this.

 

yeah, its the ruling in australia where the government has said that any publishing of news from new websites should receive royalties whether it be on social media or a search engine. Google were going to be switch off the news but instead are working with news publishers with some payments. Facebook instead have turned off links to these news websites.

Was just wondering what people thought about it, especially with people thinking its anti democratic and censorship by fb

 

Me personal, it's a difficult one to say, because I've never really seen FB as a news source. I tend to see twitter more that way, ie Trump being a prime example.

FB was orignally just a platform for university kids, that evolved, do we really need news 24/7 - I wouldn't call that censorship, just knocking on the head of news being constantly in our face, from a source that was never originally intended that way. Is it sour grapes by FB, definitely.

Thinking about it, payment royalties is not a bad idea, at least it would be financial proof maybe of political leanings.

Google and FB have all got too big for their books, so yeah, maybe it is about time someone screwed money out of them. Anti democratic and censorship by FB?....not on this ocassion, just owners of a public platform spitting it's dummy out, quite embarrassing by them really.

 

If having to pay for news is undemocratic censorship, then we've never had a democracy.
A very small number of rich people control the media now and take a loss on it to bend the narrative.
Journalism in the UK is also utterly dominated by those that are privately educated.

 

The **** is going on in Texas?

 

Ted Cruz wanted Burritos

 

Libertarianism. Nice of Rafael to **** off to Mexico, though.

 

Why? BBC world news is the ****ing gold standard in impartial, accurate reporting. The news sites that criticise them - Fox, RT, Brietbart, The Daily Mail and a whole plethora of alt-right cranksites talk total Sisushite.

 

HR Pufncock

 

And true, Trump Conservatism if that two-faced ****ebag Cruz is anything to go by.

 

The prick bottled it and ran back, because absolutely nobody could defend it.