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Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:43 am
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Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:45 am to SeaOfRed
Why did all the prepper shows get cancelled? They were all getting good ratings.
Top Shot had good ratings for several years and was dropped. Now it's on The Sportsman Channel or something like that.
Big Brotha.
Top Shot had good ratings for several years and was dropped. Now it's on The Sportsman Channel or something like that.
Big Brotha.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:46 am to SeaOfRed
We ain't going nowhere if it's left up to our admins.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:47 am to SeaOfRed
Chacken ain't got no allegiance to IMDb. He will make sure our voices are never silenced.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:47 am to SeaOfRed
not sure how you are equating free speech eroding away with a private company shutting down its message board
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:48 am to SeaOfRed
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Free speech (whether typed or spoken) is slowly eroding away.
I think you need a refresher on what "free speech" means. Free speech means you can say what you want without legal consequences outside of stuff like screaming fire in a crowded room, hate speech, etc. Free speech doesn't guarantee anyone access to an online message board that someone has to spend a significant amount of money for you to have access too.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:48 am to SeaOfRed
Political correctness did not work out so they are going with direct censorship.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:51 am to SeaOfRed
Chicken ain't no chicken.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:57 am to SeaOfRed
The culture of censorship is one of the scariest things forming right now. I am always quick to shoot down the straw-man argument, "But the First Amendment applies only to government action."
The reason that's a straw man is because, yeah, no shite. No one said otherwise.
But the First Amendment doesn't mean shite if we live in a culture willing to self-censor because we no longer value freedom of expression and value more the freedom from offense or exposure to "negativity" (aka "opposing views").
My mantra for decades has been that law follows culture. So the First Amendment, while it won't be repealed or amended in my lifetime or yours, can be gutted and ignored in many "judicial" and extra-judicial ways. It already has been in many jurisdictions. Thank GOD we don't have HRC stacking the Court over the next several years. But even still, the Court can't hear everything.
Also, as behemoth companies like Google, FB, Amazon, and Apple continue to control the exchange of information, there isn't much the Supreme Court or any other court can do about their domination of "expression." We may end up the victims of a pseudo-fascist "free market" dictatorship.
So I do believe it is paramount to oppose even private censorship. Not in an SJW whiny way, but by grasping and preaching the importance of open discourse.
The reason that's a straw man is because, yeah, no shite. No one said otherwise.
But the First Amendment doesn't mean shite if we live in a culture willing to self-censor because we no longer value freedom of expression and value more the freedom from offense or exposure to "negativity" (aka "opposing views").
My mantra for decades has been that law follows culture. So the First Amendment, while it won't be repealed or amended in my lifetime or yours, can be gutted and ignored in many "judicial" and extra-judicial ways. It already has been in many jurisdictions. Thank GOD we don't have HRC stacking the Court over the next several years. But even still, the Court can't hear everything.
Also, as behemoth companies like Google, FB, Amazon, and Apple continue to control the exchange of information, there isn't much the Supreme Court or any other court can do about their domination of "expression." We may end up the victims of a pseudo-fascist "free market" dictatorship.
So I do believe it is paramount to oppose even private censorship. Not in an SJW whiny way, but by grasping and preaching the importance of open discourse.
This post was edited on 2/7/17 at 7:58 am
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:01 am to SeaOfRed
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SeaOfRed
It's time to put down the crack pipe.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:01 am to SeaOfRed
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IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide.
In other words....it's too much of a pain in the arse and expense to maintain and monitor.
It's not a free speech issue because (1) IMDb is not government, and (2) they are not silencing some and not others. They killed the whole thing.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:04 am to SeaOfRed
If you're scared then say you're scared.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:12 am to SeaOfRed
We are good my man 
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:21 am to SeaOfRed
If this was the case then Facebook, twitter, snap chat etc would all be shut down as well.
That will never happen.
That will never happen.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:24 am to SeaOfRed
Well if it was left up to the liberals they would stamp out all sources of information that do not agree with their specific views.
That's just how the tolerant left works.
That's just how the tolerant left works.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:28 am to SeaOfRed
who cares about IMDb's message boards. I didn't even know they had message boards until this news came out. We have the Movie/TV Board.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:30 am to SeaOfRed
If Facebook, ESPN, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.. decide the audience at TD is too large, too loud, too free, too conservative, and too open, they'll buy it and silence it. Brian is no fool. He'll hold out for a king's ransom, but in the end, if they wanted to silence TV's open and free speech, they'll figure out the price that puts control in their hands.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 9:32 am to SeaOfRed
Man I don't know how people lived for 10s of thousands of years without any free speech before the internet was invented.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 10:22 am to SeaOfRed
IMDB is going to lose millions of users. Many people go there just for the boards. It's a terribly stupid idea to get rid of them.
I know it's a swarm of trolls over there, but there's still a lot of helpful info to be gained from the boards. I'm sure their admins were overloaded with RA's and had to delete thousands of posts a day, but curing the disease by killing the patient is not the answer.
I know it's a swarm of trolls over there, but there's still a lot of helpful info to be gained from the boards. I'm sure their admins were overloaded with RA's and had to delete thousands of posts a day, but curing the disease by killing the patient is not the answer.
This post was edited on 2/7/17 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 2/7/17 at 10:31 am to SeaOfRed
I thought Trump was going to stop this. Oh and free speech only protects you from the government.
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