• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Any grassroots media is going to be “boutique”. That doesn’t make it not influential, especially when considered as a whole.

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      11 months ago

      If independent media, as a whole, got too influential to the point that it was threatening the system, it would be targeted. We’ve seen this play out over and over again under capitalism. You literally just have to look to history to see this.

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        11 months ago

        Targeted with what? At least in the US, there has been a build up of case law over the past century and a half or so that provides vigorous protections of freedom of speech. The Red Scare is remembered as a scar on the US’s past, not to be repeated. Yes, there are still people with a vigorous taste for censorship, but there’s vigorous pushback against them.

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          11 months ago

          At least in the US, there has been a build up of case law over the past century and a half or so that provides vigorous protections of freedom of speech. The Red Scare is remembered as a scar on the US’s past, not to be repeated.

          This is funny because we are currently going through a red scare.