Subj : Re: Done with them?
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sun Jan 24 2021 01:33 am

 AI>  AT> Has anyone been considering giving up their social media accounts
 AI> 
 AI> If it doesn't serve a useful purpose, let it go.

Good idea.

 AI> Are you talking about some social media sites removing Donald Trump's
 AI> access to their sites?
 AI> 
 AI> That was a crackdown on boloney and lies, and not a democrat thing.

The crackdown has been going on since at least 2016. For as far back as I can
remember (I'm 41) our presidents have always had access to public broadcast TV
channels to make any sort of announcement he wanted to make. (ABC, CBS, NBC,
PBS.) But Trump's speeches were dismissed as "campaigning" and almost
constantly were blocked by them.

To watch Trump speak to the public - especially during the virus breakout -
you had to go to foxnews.com and stream it. There was no watching it on public
broadcast, because he was blocked. Sometimes they'd show him for a couple
seconds, but then they'd just cut out to a reporter who could criticize him
negatively, then they'd change the subject entirely and forget about the
president.

That didn't seem fair, but maybe it was fair because if a political party is
rich enough to own all of the media, then maybe they deserve to get their
penny's worth.

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