the discomfort in trying to say something.. anything is "tremendous"
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Cancelling Colbert, bribery, an $8bn deal: what’s going on at Paramount?
The fallout from the Trump payoff comes as a merger threatens the company’s integrity and A-list talent, such as Stephen Colbert, have already been sacrificed
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Cancelling Colbert, bribery, an $8bn deal: what’s going on at Paramount?
The fallout from the Trump payoff comes as a merger threatens the company’s integrity and A-list talent, such as Stephen Colbert, have already been sacrificed
…I think that what will happen is that Colbert will be snapped up by another Network and he’ll be given his show back real fast… at least I hope so… Trump needs to be crucified each and every night on TV until he doesn’t exist anymore… the cowardly corrupt turd… cheers.
I read someone suggesting that CBC pick him up because Canadian networks don't need to kowtow to Trump's thin skin.
And a follow up:Seems ChatGPT agrees with you. But that's not saying much because AI nonsense.
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Restricting Youtube is bizarre. It's already pretty tightly controlled content-wise. Lots of useful educational stuff there. Banning kids is crazy.
Content creators self censor a lot to stay within the rules so they don't get demonitised, so it really is one of the "safest" platforms around. Probably safer than the real world for many kids and teens!
. Kids on Youtube 
Trump wants director of jobs data fired after dismal employment report
US President alleged the employment figures were manipulated for political reasons.
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I think he‘s done it. This is incredible.Trump wants director of jobs data fired after dismal employment report
US President alleged the employment figures were manipulated for political reasons.www.1news.co.nz
Coming from him it is not even surprising. Didn't he want to stop reporting covid figures at one stage because then people would stop dying?
People are saying it's about implementing a centralised Government digital ID for everyone to access the internet. So it won't simply be about clicking the "are you over 18" box on a porn website. You literally won't be able to do a Google search unless you've logged into your Government ID. Locking down the internet. Getting rid of anonymity.
To what extent that is true, no idea. I'm uneasy with the overly conspiratorial nature of it, but it has to be a possibility. In the UK they're doing similar stuff and are now discussing banning VPNs to enforce their internet censorship.
Our Western countries are currently insane and becoming more authoritarian and Orwellian. So it is believable although I don't know how practical it would be to implement and we're run by morons.
So those morons might just be going for a maximal approach with their social media ban. With out any thought or practicality. The whole. "if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
However our Western Governments are currently dismantling international law and conventions to support a genocide. Which a lot of people don't quite comprehend. Albo, Penny Wong and our Government literally support starving and murdering children. They're the bad people in history books. People try and make excuses but none should be done. They've failed basic morality and betrayed any pretence of an enlightened civilisation.
So why give them the benefit of the doubt? We're all run by corrupt, evil people. The bad people you read about in History books run the Western world at the moment. They don't like the fact that we know it. So why shouldn't we judge this stuff as an authoritarian crackdown under the pretence of, "Won't somebody think of the children?"
The approved media is god awful, so of course they don't want people growing up with access to information that may make them question the approved narratives.
In 1995 when I first got the internet, my ISP sent me my first invoice, on paper, with pages and pages listing every single URL I'd viewed. OMG. That was a wake up call about anonymity.
In 1995 when I first got the internet, my ISP sent me my first invoice, on paper, with pages and pages listing every single URL I'd viewed. OMG. That was a wake up call about anonymity.
I think we have to assume that still goes on but to a larger extent. Google probably has profiles of us based on all the random stuff we've searched. That is only worse now with AI's as people ask them lots of personal questions and none of that is privacy protected. Expect in the not-too-distant future to have someone being convicted of a crime because they asked ChatGPT something related to it.