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https://gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint-a-babysitter-to-make-sure-cbs-isnt-anti-trump-2000634566
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https://gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint-a-babysitter-to-make-sure-cbs-isnt-anti-trump-2000634566
mikeatike
Larry Elliaon is a facsist fuckface.
Also he tried to ruin Java. Everyone should have listened to James Gosling.
ghostofmung
NsFw
VoidBlep
Ah, yes, a political officer. Another thing learned from Putin. Don't turn around, oh oh. Der Kommissar's in town, whoa oh.
zHurk777
A woman's pregnancy is between the woman, her doctor AND her local politician. That's some real CCP sh!t. The GOP is the Gang of Phfour for maga America.
sylviep155
sokernick
No shit.
ontarioOT
My first response was, "That's a good satirical headline."
I can't express how disappointed I am that this is real.
RedSkizzers
This is a 1 to 1 analogue with what happened to media institutions under the Nazi regime. This 'bias monitor' will soon reveal themselves to be an open tyrant, and the demands they make will quickly change from suggestions to follow to outright commands backed with the threat of arrest.
Doubtthedevout
Trey Parker and Matt stone need to bring protected at all cost.
mediumrarechickenstrips
Meanwhile, Paramount also has to deal with South Park. Fun fact: the "Pro-Trump PSA" was labeled 1 of 50, and Paramount signed a 50 episode deal with them the day before it aired. Coincidence?
Tumescentpie
A pro trump message may have been in the contract. I really hope that it was worded poorly and they are taking advantage of it.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
That's called a "political officer" and has been used by fascists for like a hundred years.
eion85
The media is complicit in the fascist winning thanks to their sanewashing of Trump and holding Biden to a standard they never held Trump.
Fuck those corporate fucks.
vystral
When you make a deal with the devil, usually the devil will at some point come to collect
OperatorWay
So they'll also have a "bias monitor" at faux nooz to make sure it isn't pro-chump, right?
robingal1
Huh. Cancel Culture HAS gone too far.
BennyGaga
That guy is going to get a lot of fun calls from the south park guys..
EroticZombiePants
Our media is all owned by billionaires and giant corporations. None of them are anti-Trump. Even the ones that seem to be are solely doing it for the ratings and likely won't put up any resistance when ordered to go farther right.
LincLoud
magical8ball
Frothington
I think you guys might have a China style great firewall soon.
NeverEnoughFoxes
Would be a shame if the monitor fell down a flight of stairs.
robotlaserninjashark
Okay so… quick question from the sidelines: at what point was that general strike supposed to happen again? Because (again: from the sidelines) between this, those fun ICE raids and the DOJ granting partial immunity to Maxwell: maybe soonish would be a good time?
MeeseOnABeam
insanely weak and pathetic to do this but also how weird i thought we were against spending government dimmadollars on stupid bullshit
quade
First for CBS, and then the others. First, they can't say anything bad about Trump, then they must say nice things about him.
EroticZombiePants
Most of our outlets are already on his side anyway, so they don't have to do that much work to take total media control.
ApothecaryGrant
The owners of CBS and Paramount are fully in on this too. The FCC doesn't have to lift a finger to enforce this rule. The network will do it themselves. And NBC and CNN ain't your friends either.
Look at every single news outlet in the US and follow them back to their owners, CEO, chairman of the board, everyone at the very top. They're all MAGA. It's not the least bit subtle how much they're gagging on Trump's shriveled tootsie roll.
The fix is in. We're just stuck watching as it plays out.
VincitQuiSeVincit
people don't seem to understand that the root cause of Trumpism isn't just him appealing to the anger of ignorant, poor whites, but to the greed of corporations.
FellaWithUmbrella
But never FOX News.
quade
I dunno -- they sometimes lean a little too far-left for his tastes...
PrinceMaxx7
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eXZuOGd4aHU2Nzd2bHc1bHE2dDdvZGJodGlyMWJ0eDN6dm8xb2RyaiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/LS2jxZ0KtgVeule3Ye/200w.webp
stevelite
No fuck that. South Park should be on repeat. CBS can eat shit.
WhatNumberPlease
swephisto
Right, like a political commissar
Stumpkiller
Our modern Joseph Goebbels.
walnutbreath
Straight out of the totalitarian playbook.
Apothecarius
1st year isn't even over yet, he's already silencing the media.
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GogglesGreek
The hundred billionaire chose this for his failson.
SavageDrums
You are a fascist dictatorship. He doesn't have complete control yet, but he's working on it (more specifically, his legion of evil is working on it, his brain is too busy leaking out of his ears to handle much planning...)
mikeatike
Worse they just took it over.
StellarJay77
This is exactly how state media is firmly established in an authoritarian dictatorship.
lArePositivityMagnet
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Y2FqNmR2bDI4MzRjYXk4bnl0d3ZiYnR2NHFuOHdjZ3NhZjZzbTh4eiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/UKF08uKqWch0Y/200w.webp
YesButMaybe
and another step "towards" "smaller" government. Yay! MAGA! You were right! If we all voted for Trump and Trump-supporting Republicans, we would have less government in our lives! /s
despite the Republicans pushing for more and more laws invading our lives before Trump was elected. You know. Like when all the Republican counties and cities legislated what books could exist or not exist in certain public arenas. That's "more" government in a "GOOD" way.
3Davideo
The self-censorship started before election day. Remember all those newspapers and shizz that refused to endorse or were instructed to refuse to endorse in order to avoid future retributions from Trump?
NumptyDumptyLump
This. That was the trial run.
WhatDoesItAllMeanMrNatural
He ain't silencing shit. Those that need permission to speak silence themselves with their cowardice. Fuck Paramount and fuck CBS and while you're at it, fuck Mad King Donny and his sycophantic cultist hall-monitors.
alrightalrightalrightpartyatthemoontower
I’m not absolutely against diversity in the media. The big media is pretty much oligarchs now. Let it split up as it’s done in the past. Journalists find a way to be honest and trustworthy. Down with the old and up with the new. Now those seeking bad information will do it no matter what.
EroticZombiePants
The real silence will come when he orders our internet providers to censor "unamerican" content. Not a single one of them will have any issue whatsoever putting Chinese style blocks on all sites not personally approved by the administration. They know most people don't really understand proxies, and they can simply make them being found on a computer a felony anyway. Especially once they are far enough along to openly throw out the concept of habeas corpus.
idiotsonfire
State media. Just like RT.
Selfinflictedwounds
Hmm, isn't this the very exact sort of thing that Republicans work themselves in to a conniption fit over?.
But if this is fine, I guess Republicans will be fine with a Democrat doing this to Fox News
ThisIsMyUsernameThereAreManyLikeIt
The days of us acting surprised and aghast of their double standards need to end. This is their entire modus operandi. They have to be stopped.
AzaellexTytalus
He told them if they get him elected, they’d never have to worry about it again. He’s working on making that happen. They openly say they intend to end democracy.
EroticZombiePants
They don't plan on a Democrat ever being in power again.
hockey4mal8
I also have my doubts. :(
likuidlightning
The current expectation seems to be that there won't be another non-Trump or non-Republican president.
idiotsonfire
Its all projection. GOP stands for Gaslight, Obstruct, Project. They're an entire cadre of pindicked moron losers who want power.
glocksout
TBF Republicans want to enforce everyone to think like them, and since they don’t they are oppressed
HeLoudlySaidIgnoreMe
if you've believed a Republican when they talk about your values, you're a dumbass. They're all needledicked fascists who want freedom for themselves and chains for everyone else, and they haven't figured out that they're "everyone else" to their masters.
ApothecaryGrant
Today you're gonna learn that the "gotcha" doesn't get anybody. These people go into this knowing full-well that their arguments are trash and their political stance is "whatever pisses off the other side." The conniption fit is performative. They don't actually care. They don't. Talk to them and you'll learn. They. Don't. Care. All they care about is that you care and that they've found a way to piss you off. That's their entire political ideology.
unluckyandbored
Of course not. That's government overreach and "SOCIALISM!"
9z2nf02h
They're fascists. They are not ashamed of hypocrisy. It's a feature.
MostAwesomeDan
"Rules for thee and not for me" is their mantra. ffs a Republican politician got an abortion in Florida the other week and blamed Democrats.
LespritDeLescalier22
Did she have sex with a democrat? /s
elementcarbon12
I really hope the American people do the right thing in the midterms them in 2028 and send the GOP to rot with the other fascist regimes in history.
Khanamana324
Newsflash bub: those regimes weren’t toppled by the peasantry voting the fascists out. Those regimes weren’t toppled toppled by turning the ruling class, their enforcers and collaborators into fertilizer.
InTangier
I want something like those Chinese bronze statues of some past assholes still being humiliated today.
SunAnvil
I really do love it when my tax dollars are so well distributed and used. /s
zHurk777
Paramount Is Paying For The Monitor !!! - magas.
sokernick
Congress seems to love it too.
IslaNublar
"Fuck you. We're removing your $6/day SNAP benefit and your healthcare, while we enjoy $79/day meal allowances and the best healthcare money can buy, YOUR money, for the rest of our lives even after we're out of office. All paid for by you."
sokernick
Hope that fu wasn't for me. Congress should be in charge of the distribution of funds not turd or cabinet flunkies. Remember to vote all blue. Call your Congress reps. I have no health care, snap and doubt I'll ever get my SS. Ought to be dead in about two months.
IslaNublar
No, I was being sarcastic and criticizing Congress/the Senate. As always they live high on our dime, sucking up our tax dollars for the best of the best, while they tell us who are getting scraps that we're getting too much and don't deserve anything, and they need to cut us even further so billionaires can get tax breaks.