Are the right being silenced.
 

Are the media beginning to silence the right wing of politics?

No.

Sadly no, you're louder than ever.

The media is all run by billionaires with a natural self interest in advancing the policies of conservatives, so no.

no

Yes The BBC is guilty of that.

I wouldn't say so, tbh in the past few years it almost seems the opposite if anything. Mind, the guardian and co have always done left wing slanting, mail and that right wing, there just seems to be more right leaning papers about, rather than anyone being silenced I think.

My go to read is the times these days. The guardian I cannot trust to actually report on stuff, mails too ott...and times seems about right for a mix of everything. Friends say this is proof I am now right wing! But...it doesnt seem right to me tbh? Seems to be about as close to middle ground as exists these days..

(edit. Mind I read the metro more than anything else, as its free and I do a lot of long buses!)

I read the metro but the times is to big for me to feel comfortable reading on public transport.

"(edit. Mind I read the metro more than anything else, as its free and I do a lot of long buses!) "


Thats OK the Metro is
a mixture of storys
a easy read and free

No, but the right love to act like victims.

You can never claim that the right is silenced when such a large part of media is owned by the Murdoch Empire and they push their agenda loud and clear.

Ahh yeah, I don't buy it for public transport D: Just if I buy for at home ocasionally, and I have a subscription too so tend to use their site a lot.
Mero seems to be left slanted tbh, but not anywhere near as much as others, and tends to actually report quite fairly from what I have seen.

Times is apparently owned by Murxoch these days too? Never thought to check..thats quite surprising actually..as as I said, they tend to be very fair in reporting and seem the most..centre of news sources I haved found tbh. Some individual stories are heavily biased mind, both ways, but overall, its a good mix.

They may act like victims because they are being victimised on tv, media and on the streets by being lumped as one.

The truth of the matter is that people of the right who feel like they are being 'silenced' ultimately don't like being questioned or being proven wrong. They don't respect or know what freedom of speech entails and they get upset when someone disagrees with them because they falsely believe that freedom of speech somehow protects them from other people's views.

British media in particular is heavily right wing leaning, to act like you are being silenced just isn't true, you're being catered to more often than not.

Er, no, not at all.
The opposite is possibly more the case.
In my opinion anyway.

It's more the other way around.

Unless you have viewpoints similar to Nigel Farage, then you just get classed as not good enough by our Media.

Thr media aren't, but social media platforms seem to like banning right wing public figures.

i can't blame them for doing so honestly

You're confusing right with far right

I mean, when the right bring it on themselves when they do sheer clownery like this

I'd say let their views be heard, it casts light on what crappy people they are - it is well to know what tunes the devil is playing, amd all that.

But what if that doesn't happen, what if people believe the crap..like they did in the 30s, what then?

OMFG :facepalm:

People on both sides of the political spectrum believe crap. People believe crap which turns them into religious extremists. People believe crap which makes them buy things they don't need.

Nobody is silencing anybody.
Social media platforms are private companies and have no obligation to host everybody.
Extremists can create their own platform and spout their nonsense there. They already have Fox btw.
I'm not going to wring my hands bc some fascists get kicked off Facebook

Electric companies are private companies and have no obligation to provide for everybody. Should they get to deny people services?

Yet whenever any other group are victimised you seem to not give two shiny sh*ts.

....because a lot of right wing public figures broke very open and transparent rules of use for said social media platforms.

You're comparing an electric company refusing service due to... not liking someone to... someone being banned from a privately owned website for breaking the website's own rules?

Your comparison does not work.

It's like exclaiming that TiBB does not have the right to deny people the ability to post.

It’s all yesterday’s news, all papers are the same, they just have bigger words.

Yes, if they break conditions of service, like fascists, racists and white supremacists do.

No, in fact in the UK the media are the right wing of politics.
Look at any independent analysis of media bias and you'll see.

In the social media age we're in now, more and more people are looking for news that fits their own opinion, rather than neutral reporting or anything that challenges their views.

Most users on Twitter, for example, that post about politics - and if you look at the posts about a political topic it bears this out - are on the left or liberal side of politics.

So left-wing political users have greater numbers on Twitter and are more likely to get their way in complaints (through having a louder voice) about other users' behaviour, than the other side.

It's just better business for Twitter to favour the greater number of users.

You're trying to compare social media websites to power companies. Power companies don't give platforms to people to misuse, social media can. It's just... a really badly thought out comparison on your part that makes little sense and relies entirely on false equivalency to work.

Right wing people keep getting banned from social media because they break the ****ing rules. You aren't arguing that they are being treated unfairly, you're arguing that they should get special treatment and be exempt from the rules.

it's all about business yes

What's your point?

No, they’re talking as much as ever.... its just that nobodys listening anymore.

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Me trying to decipher what the hell this means.

And that's why those things are regulated so that extremism is acted on similarly with adverising standards, false claims and misinformation are overseen by independent regulators.

That you'd rather paint them as victims and ignore the actual victimisation occuring in the world. You consider that normal.