Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser...
by th0ma5 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:39PM
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Not defending China's idea at all, but with private media in this country having a financial motivation to knowingly lie is pretty reprehensible. They have the right to do it sure, and they should, but if a good portion of a populace lives in a fiction, that isn't great. And to be clear while leftist stuff can be extreme, sure, the current major problem is right wing extremist lies are clearly more detrimental just because of their popularity. It is not really a both sides issue.
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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser...
by More-nitors on Saturday October 09, 2021 @12:57PM
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> with private media in this country having a financial motivation to knowingly lie is pretty reprehensible.
That can be balanced-out with other media outlets voicing other side.
And... not attacking China's great political unification, having and using politics to censor out a lot of government corruption that ultimately hurts its own people... doesn't look great
(no 'political balance-of-power' + no freedom-of-speech/press + no-election: the government officials can de facto do whatever they want, from small things like accepting bribes for not noticing fake-food factories, to uh... ok I'll stop now.
Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser...
by ethbr0 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @03:33PM
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>> with private media in this country having a financial motivation to knowingly lie is pretty reprehensible.
> That can be balanced-out with other media outlets voicing other side.
It's entirely possible to counter balance something with a lie, neither the original or response being the truth, which doesn't help inform the viewers either.