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Has actual media censorship arrived?
Has actual media censorship arrived?
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Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated

The excuse: a note from Fox News (where else?)
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”

— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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He can say what he wants, but he'll need a Constitutional amendment to actually do it.

The Founding Fathers, in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Wrote:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.



Google gives Trump a look at reality. Trump doesn’t like it.

Quote:The fellow who came into office promising a businessman’s sense of the world apparently doesn’t understand: Internet search, like everything else in today’s world, is super-competitive. Should Google sideline important feeds from its search results, it would lose share. So the matter that the president says will be “addressed” is already being addressed.

View this particular Trump freakout as the crazed spasm of a man who doesn’t have enough power to satisfy his own narcissism. For years, he has been telling his followers about all the “fake news” from the very outlets that get good traction on Google. The reason they get good traction on Google is that those outlets produce news stories that hold up, that gain adherence on social media, that attract links all over the Internet. This is an organic process that not even the president, with all his tweeting and harrumphing, can interdict.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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What was it that Stephen Colbert said some years back? "Reality has a noted liberal bias."
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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There's no bias, it's just that Trump can't go five minutes without shitting his pants in front of the world.
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(08-28-2018, 03:41 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: What was it that Stephen Colbert said some years back?  "Reality has a noted liberal bias."

More like liberals don't plug their ears and cover their eyes to deny reality.

Usually.
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