Remember that lunatic judge last week who decided the federal government was censoring right-wing views and banned them from talking to social media? His order was appealed and today the 5th Circuit issued, with no comment, an emergency stay. Routine cooperation about election security and other issues can now resume.
Although the 5th Circuit is notoriously conservative, the feds got a bit of a break in the random three-judge panel that heard the appeal. But this is far from the last word. A different three-judge panel will hear arguments on the merits in an expedited hearing, and after that there's always the possibility of appeal to the Supreme Court. For now, though, sanity reigns once again.
You guys will sing a different tune should the right get chummy with social media companies and help them "police" content. You would probably call it fascism, and you would be right.
I'm not sure what your point is here, exactly?
There already are plenty of social media platforms which are chummy with the "right". They aren't doing especially well, as it turns out that the only actual idea many of that particular group have is to pwn the libz and that only works if there are other people there, and content is therefore not 'policed'.
Meanwhile, the other platforms that are getting coverage atm are largely ones that learned from Twitter's mistakes (and, crucially, so too have their users) meaning that many of the old tactics are falling flat. That doesn't mean there won't be new ones, but it will take time for them to establish and by then it may be too late.
Many Faux News contributors, who basically praised all of Trump's bullshit and lies, became a significant source of recruitment for senior jobs at the Whitehouse. Not a bad way to influence senior media contributors by rewarding them with high profile jobs (until Trump inevitably throws them under the bus). Didn't Trump have Hannity on speed dial as an advisor? Not too chummy with the right wing media?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-employees-hired-by-trump/
Of course if the government would actually threaten to pull the FCC license's of media companies they don't like, that would be a legitimate breach of the 1st amendment. But who would possibly be stupid enough to do that in public?
https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/11/media/trump-nbc-licenses-tweet/index.html
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"Lunatic Judge ... 'sent packing'" Seriously? As in thrown out of office? Censured? Replaced? NO!! A stay was issued on one of his verdicts.
Hardly "sent packing." This sort of clickbait is beneath you, sir.