| ▲ | pembrook 9 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
It’s working fantastic. US media is great at generating hysteria (competitive market pressures in the war for attention), but the US is at essentially very little risk for speech suppression at the level of the UK right now. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | osullivj 8 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
UK too, and concerned. I agree that amendment 1 and 2 provisions effectively underpin individual freedom in the US due to founder perspicacity. My fear re US constitutional provision is on separation of powers, and transfer of power. Fortunately Pence held to the constitution. Nobody ever willingly takes their hands of the levers of power! | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dyauspitr 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Yeah just physical suppression with active military patrolling major cities. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nosianu 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> It’s working fantastic. The ignorance of what's been happening the last few months is ridiculous. Trump and his people have successfully pressured, or denied access, or removed security clearances, or demonetized (public broadcasting), or directly fired, or just called out to cause a hate-storm from his supporters, companies, organizations, individuals. Oh sure, it is different from the UK: Instead of technical blocks and surveillance this administration targets people and organizations directly. https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/paramount... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/11/us-journalist-dropp... https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/07/media/trump-cnn-press-con... https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/11/the-media-fe... https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/g-s1-51489/voice-of-america-b... https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-media-caves-t... | |||||||||||||||||
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