Just a girlpede's nightly musing, but I want to go backaways for a moment, to Plato, and point something out:

Plato said that when a work of art is made - this can be anything from a statue to a piece of journalistic writing - the author has a duty to his country, to follow three rules:

1. The work should have capacity to give thought
2. The work should be correct, with an emphasis on truth and verisimilitude
3. The work should have good effects and usefulness

Aristotle goes even further than Plato, to say that the moral value of a work (in benefiting the society as a whole) should not be trespassed without going unpunished.

Journalistic standards today have fallen so fucking low compared to these criteria - which I consider pretty golden - that we've reached full blown censorship. They fail on all 3:

1. You have twisted, manipulated headlines with carefully selected words taken out of context, meant to evoke feelings while suppressing thought
2. Truth suffers in favour of censorship and emotional manipulation
3. Benefits to society are in the negative: they cause riots, protests, violence, destruction. They incite people to radicalization, encouraging the left to believe Trump is a hellhound sent to destroy the world and his followers are inhuman (hence Antifa, etc.)

I'll say it again.

CENSORSHIP IS THE HALLMARK OF DICTATORSHIPS.

You will not find one time in history when it went well.

Just a girlpede's nightly musing, but I want to go backaways for a moment, to Plato, and point something out:

Plato said that when a work of art is made - this can be anything from a statue to a piece of journalistic writing - the author has a duty to his country, to follow three rules:

1. The work should have capacity to give thought
2. The work should be correct, with an emphasis on truth and verisimilitude
3. The work should have good effects and usefulness

Aristotle goes even further than Plato, to say that the moral value of a work (in benefiting the society as a whole) should not be trespassed without going unpunished.

Journalistic standards today have fallen so fucking low compared to these criteria - which I consider pretty golden - that we've reached full blown censorship. They fail on all 3:

1. You have twisted, manipulated headlines with carefully selected words taken out of context, meant to evoke ** feelings** not thought
2. Truth suffers in favour of censorship and emotional manipulation
3. Benefits to society are in the negative: they cause riots, protests, violence, destruction. They incite people to radicalization, encouraging the left to believe Trump is a hellhound sent to destroy the world and his followers are inhuman (hence Antifa, etc.)

I'll say it again.

CENSORSHIP IS THE HALLMARK OF DICTATORSHIPS.

You will not find one time in history when it went well.

Just a girlpede's nightly musing, but I want to go backaways for a moment, to Plato, and point something out:

Plato said that when a work of art is made - this can be anything from a statue to a piece of journalistic writing - the author has a duty to his country, to follow three rules:

1. The work should have capacity to give thought
2. The work should be correct, with an emphasis on truth and verisimilitude
3. The work should have good effects and usefulness

Aristotle goes even further than Plato, to say that the moral value of a work (in benefiting the society as a whole) should not be trespassed without going unpunished.

Journalistic standards today have fallen so fucking low compared to these criteria - which I consider pretty golden - that we've reached full blown censorship. They fail on all 3:

1. You have twisted, manipulated headlines meant to evoke feelings not thought
2. Truth suffers in favour of censorship and manipulation
3. They incite people to violence, attempt to radicalize the left to believe the right is their enemy and Trump is a hellhound sent to destroy the world (hence Antifa, etc.) In other words, they have bad effects on society.

I'll say it again.

CENSORSHIP IS THE HALLMARK OF DICTATORSHIPS.

You will not find one time in history when it went well.

Just a girlpede's nightly musing, but I want to go backaways for a moment, to Plato, and point something out:

Plato said that when a work of art is made - this can be anything from a statue to a piece of journalistic writing - the author has a duty to his country, to follow three rules:

1. The work should have capacity to give thought
2. The work should be correct, with an emphasis on truth and verisimilitude
3. The work should have good effects and usefulness

Aristotle goes even further than Plato, to say that the moral value of a work (in benefiting the society as a whole) should not be trespassed without going unpunished.

Journalistic standards today have fallen so fucking low compared to these criteria - which I consider pretty golden - that we've reached full blown censorship. They fail on all 3:

1. All we get is twisted, manipulated headlines meant to evoke feelings not thought, taken out of context for maximum emotional response and minimum logical response
2. Truth suffers in favour of censorship and manipulation
3. They incite people to violence, attempt to radiacalize the left to believe the right is their enemy and Trump is a hellhound sent to destroy the world (hence Antifa, etc.)

I'll say it again.

CENSORSHIP IS THE HALLMARK OF DICTATORSHIPS.

You will not find one time in history when it went well.

Just a girlpede's nightly musing, but I want to go backaways for a moment, to Plato, and point something out:

Plato said that when a work of art is made - this can be anything from a statue to a piece of journalistic writing - the author has a duty to his country, to follow three rules:

1. The work should have capacity to give thought
2. The work should be correct, with an emphasis on truth and verisimilitude
3. The work should have good effects and usefulness

Aristotle goes even further than Plato, to say that the moral value of a work (in benefiting the society as a whole) should not be trespassed without going unpunished.

Journalistic standards today have fallen so fucking low compared to these criteria - which I consider pretty golden - that we've reached full blown censorship. They fail on all 3:

1. You have twisted, manipulated headlines meant to evoke feelings not thought
2. Truth suffers in favour of censorship and manipulation
3. They incite people to violence, attempt to radiacalize the left to believe the right is their enemy and Trump is a hellhound sent to destroy the world (hence Antifa, etc.)

I'll say it again.

CENSORSHIP IS THE HALLMARK OF DICTATORSHIPS.

You will not find one time in history when it went well.