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[Ohio]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

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)

Don't blame advertisers, or even governments, for censorship.

F.A.N.G. is far more dangerous.

Google Lawsuit: Senior Engineer Alon Altman Wanted to Sabotage Trump’s Android Phone, Ban His Gmail Account

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[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Don't blame advertisers, or even governments, for censorship.

F.A.N.G. is far more dangerous.

Google Lawsuit: Senior Engineer Alon Altman Wanted to Sabotage Trump’s Android Phone, Ban His Gmail Account

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What is F.A.N.G.

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

What is F.A.N.G.

Acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google.

Multi-Billion-Dollar Silicone Valley Tech Giants.

It would include others like Twitter.

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google.

Multi-Billion-Dollar Silicone Valley Tech Giants.

It would include others like Twitter.

Facebook and Google are creations of Advertisers. It is their dream.

[awareness]

This just in :

The US government has been secretly collecting documents on 'remote mind control' and 'forced memory blanking', accidentally leaked files suggest. In what sounds like a plot from the X-files, they revealed research into bizarre 'psycho-electronic' weaponry

Fox News Link

[ZNPaaneah]

Russia Says It Told U.S. Where In Syria It Was Allowed To Bomb

Like I said, nothing but a show.

[zeek]

"For years, a joke among Trump Tower employees was that the boss was like Manhattan’s First Avenue, where the traffic goes only one way.

That one-sidedness has always been at the heart of President Trump’s relationship with his longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, who has said he would “take a bullet” for Mr. Trump.

For years Mr. Trump treated Mr. Cohen poorly, with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and, at least twice, threats of being fired, according to interviews with a half-dozen people familiar with their relationship.

Now, for the first time, the traffic may be going Mr. Cohen’s way."