• thefartographer
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Because the Regan-era FCC wreaked havoc on perception vs. reality by giving a megaphone to people who wear tinfoil hats and threaten civilization. Nowadays, if you don’t platform the extremists, then you are the extremist and are trying to influence everyone with your bias.

    Conservatives “leveled the playing field” decades ago by shortening the other team’s half of the pitch and increasing the size of their goal. If you ever point it out, they scream and cry and have their fans rush the field to beat up the players and move their own goal even further back.