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Originally Posted by Ohio

We are already seeing conservative censorship beginning to take off. Twitter even Blocks Girl with Down Syndrome for Posting ‘Pro-Life Pictures.’

In the United States, the concentration of ownership in the media industry has become an extremely troubling trend. In 1981, Ben Bagdikian found that 46 corporations owned or controlled the majority of media outlets in the United States. As of 2013, that number had shrunk to six corporations (Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages, 4th Edition)

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. (Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising by Anthony J Cortese)

In the United States, about two-thirds of the revenues of newspapers and magazines come from advertising, while broadcasting is almost entirely dependent upon advertising for its profits. (Censorship: A World Encyclopedia by Derek Jones)