I’ll repeat what I said the last time this was posted before it gets flagged off the front page again: if you think government censorship is not on topic for a forum called “hacker news”, then you don’t understand what the word hacker means or its origins and you’re just appropriating a word to make your entrepreneurship forum sound cool. Freedom of speech and freedom of information are central to the hacker ethos and its BS to keep selectively flagging posts that are inconvenient for the tech industry under the false pretense that political discussions don’t belong here.
Big discussion about it yesterday, but something new today is the FCC pressure, and that is what would be interesting to the HN crowd.
The government is using its power to regulate the electromagnetic spectrum as a way of getting political speech it doesn't like off the air. The President himself suggested NBC cancel their shows as well.
It's a blatant violation of the first amendment, using the government to censor speech. And it looks like not a thing will be done about it.
> We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” the host said.
I've heard this before, but where did this originate? Did Jimmy just make it up or was he quoting some source? I heard the same thing but from people I interact with that this guy was crazy right wing nazi and killed Kirk because Kirk wasn't hard-line enough. But then the bullets said "Catch, fascist" so that was just super confusing. Are fascists calling each other fascists as a meme, or was the killer signing his name like "catch, <signed by> fascist".
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 30.3 ms ] threadThe government is using its power to regulate the electromagnetic spectrum as a way of getting political speech it doesn't like off the air. The President himself suggested NBC cancel their shows as well.
It's a blatant violation of the first amendment, using the government to censor speech. And it looks like not a thing will be done about it.
I've heard this before, but where did this originate? Did Jimmy just make it up or was he quoting some source? I heard the same thing but from people I interact with that this guy was crazy right wing nazi and killed Kirk because Kirk wasn't hard-line enough. But then the bullets said "Catch, fascist" so that was just super confusing. Are fascists calling each other fascists as a meme, or was the killer signing his name like "catch, <signed by> fascist".