Although it is important that we question everything we read, it is just as important that we do not let the government control what we read.
Thanks to unprecedented advances in technology, people are able to access information at rates and levels that would have been unimaginable even a couple decades ago. We can store information that would have taken entire libraries to fill in times past on devices no bigger than our hands today, and transmit it faster than anyone could have dreamed of. This has made it possible for ordinary people to not just find news, but disseminate it as well.
The downside of this is that since everybody can share news, anybody can, leading to misleading and even outright false stories spreading. Even worse, this gives the busybodies in Washington a pretext to exert their control over alternative media.
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Trumps news channel will be interesting!
There you go just as all the communist countries have done censorship. There goes that freedom of speech thing
Dems only perform better for the poor …..making them dependent on the government….
Government doesn’t exist to provide the people monetary and health benefits…..which is what the dems keep making it out to be just that…
The government was supposed to help people that needed help…..but only if it had a surplus of money left over…..
It’s not supposed to keep raising taxes higher and higher for the purpose of giving to the poor….
That isn’t charity…..that is robbery
M David Harding – I agree with both your comments…
1984
Pretty sure this is hype…
Dana Kerr you do mean Obama, Bush Sr, Bush Jr, Reagan, Carter, Johnson, Nixon, the list goes on and on. If you think Obama has been the only bad president then you’re as much a lemming as the rest.
If f**e news can lead to riots and mayhem and even sway an election it should be stopped. It would be for the good of all.
I love how all the Trumpsters are up in arms about this bill that hasn’t even passed calling it another democratic government takeover but fail to remember when the Republicans forced the Patriot Act down our throats which actually infringed on our freedoms to keep us safe?.?.?.? When a Republican does it it’s patriotic and okay but anything a Democrat does is un-American. Open your minds and quit following your political parties like blind sheep. America has been taken over by government Republicans and Democrats since the industrial revolution when money and wealth began to control everything.