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POLL: Is Censorship a Partisan Issue? (www.realclearpolitics.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/conservative
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Republican voters (74%) and independents (61%) believe speech should be legal “under any circumstances, while Democrats are almost evenly divided. A bare majority of Democrats (53%) say speech should be legal under any circumstances, while 47% say it should be legal “only under certain circumstances.”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is me:

  1. Liberals are convinced of the presence of a “fact gap” in the current political environment, which is to say that liberals’ desire to clamp down on misinformation stems from a certainty that conservative content is, objectively speaking, less factual than liberal media content.

Network Propaganda demonstrated this quite convincingly. Unlike other media ecosystems, the right-wing media ecosystem sources their content from the fringes and brings it to the mainstream. Like, nothing from Dissent Magazine isn't going to show up in the New York Times. But stuff from Breitbart and...wtfever counts as fringe on the right, showed up on Fox News, often disseminated via Tucker Carlson.

That whole process demonstrates a lack of journalistic integrity on the right to me (or, to be fair to Tucker Carlson as a former Fox News host, a completely different idea of journalistic integrity than is conventional). The entire right-wing media ecosystem seems to not care for facts or anything that is real from what I've seen. Everything is used to frame events for some political purpose, and it's not beyond them to manufacturer fake crises.

So, the solution seems like not allowing that disinformation. My real preferred solution is creating a whole society that cares about intellectual integrity. But we have people that say and believe CRT is taught to children, which is 100% false. So...ya know...something needs to be done.