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You chose the very worst person in India to comment about India! Asking Rana Ayyub about India is like asking Ilhan Omar about America. You have lost my following.

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We need a free press because so much untruth and inflammatory stuff is printed by the free press.

Sounds ironic doesn't it? Actually, I think, the thought is used as an excuse to not have a free press. It is the reasoning behind 'fact checker' censorship.

But it is not some comedic irony is it? It is a fact. The free burbling and mouthing off of all and sundry in the chaotic world gives rise to much untruth and cunningly deceptive and manipulative talk.

But the cure lies within the disease. Only by allowing it all can we find the 'cures' within. Once we start 'cutting down' on what's said there's the immediate danger of cutting out the 'cures' instead of the diseases.

I think today that has been indisputably shown in the covid debate.

I just thought of an analogy: in a waste land we often find those hardy stinging nettles growing. But in my experience it is true that where they grow the antidote - the dock leaf - grows nearby.

Attempts to regulate the growth of that wasteland simply to remove the nettles are expensive time consuming and overall deleterious to the 'riches' that grew there before. The same with speech I think.

We have perhaps a wrong idea of 'listening' or 'what we should be hearing'. We seem to have gotten the idea we should be hearing pure tones, so to speak.

But the natural 'background noise' of a community is more like the 'white sound' of the ocean and we should expect that.

And our innate job and skill should be to listen to that 'white sound' and pick out of it what is good and right and useful to us and reject that which is not.

When we try and control that 'white sound' we are trying to stop the sound of the sea and we are at once losing the wealth of the sea, so to speak, and a natural skill of our own. We weaken ourselves. We cheat ourselves.

It is not really a question of what they should be allowed to say - it is a question of how well are going to school ourselves to listen.

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Alleged "Press freedom" is absolutely meaningless the world over. The billionaire-owned press and media are the ongoing authors of their own destruction. See their years-long deafening S I L E N C E on Julian #Assange. They are aligned to empire building, neoliberalism, arms deals, far flung invasions, the watering down of democracy, Saudi incurred famine, and the on the record slaughter of civilians and journalists from Apache helicopters. The word "disgusting" doesn't do this justice.

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The mainstream media press are free to say anything they want as long as it doesnt upset Big Pharma and is approved by the Govt. https://artilleryvoo.substack.com/p/free-speech?s=w

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One expression of freedom is having free speech:

“I disapprove of what you say,

but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

― Evelyn Beatrice Hall (paraphrasing Voltaire)

"Why in the world would you oppose free speech?

It’s the only thing the oppressed have.”

— Jordan Peterson

From:

Communication Insights From Movies

https://moviewise.substack.com/p/communication-insights-from-movies

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Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely. Such freedom implies the absence of interference from an overreaching state; its preservation may be sought through constitution or other legal protection and security.

In some countries, reporting on certain topics is prevented or restricted by governments.

Without respect to governmental information, any government may distinguish which materials are public or protected from disclosure to the public. State materials are protected due to either one of two reasons: the classification of information as sensitive, classified or secret, or the relevance of the information to protecting the national interest. Many governments are also subject to "sunshine laws" or freedom of information legislation that are used to define the ambit of national interest and enable citizens to request access to government-held information.

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Wow, this is a powerful piece. Freedom of the press is very important, and we are fortunate to have that in the US.

I do worry about Nikita’s “two narrative system” though. In countries like the US where we have freedom of the press, that freedom is used to hold power accountable as often as it is used to spread completely false information.

As a reader, it can be very difficult to know whether something is fact or fiction and that is as dangerous as not having freedom of the press. Misinformation has led to widespread hate and even violent action!

I know the debate is often framed as freedom of the press vs. censorship but I kind of think we need both and I wonder if there is a way to fact check the media without removing our freedom to it. Can we hold press accountable (without harm to the journalists), even as the press continues to hold power accountable?

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There is difference on freedom and fake news . Rana Ayyub is one the person who propagate hate among communities for money. She have used money collected in the name of victim of covid -19 ,victims of flood and use that money for person use. She plays victim hood of being minority muslim but fact is muslim are one the most progressive muslim in the world . Many Bollywood star like Shahruk , Salman ,Amir all of them are muslim . We need to separate out fake news spreader and oppose this kind of victim hood publically . I would encourage this platform should not be used by these fake news creator otherwise this will also die like twitter.

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It is very clear that freedom of thinking, speeech and communication are under treath also in Belgium and certainly on digital media. I was banned from facebook when opening an AVAAZ community where we shared all information we could find additional to what was provided in mean stream media... Keep on doing the right work and support independent investigative journalism!

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There is no freedom of anything anymore. People are too afraid to assert their freedoms thereby losing them. Only thugs and governments have freedoms.

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Essential to a free stable society which cannot flourish in a fettered atmosphere All people should be able to express genuine feelings of good will & sense to encompass all with honesty and god will Sadly for me these new ideas dont sit will with me I dont understand them or like them probably never will so my writing will be nil value and I.m too old to be brought up to date

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I like picking up a lot of useful knowledge. Any form of freedom no longer exists. People stop exercising their freedom because they are too afraid. Only dictatorships and bullies value freedom.

All of these authors come from liberal, and if I may add, strongly left-leaning, media.

https://colortunnel.io

I have no confidence in their authors or media in general. Media outlets and reporters need to be able to express themselves freely and not only talk about

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In France, they launched an NFT platform for press cartoons : https://grafonage.art/

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For anyone with an open mind, here is another point of view about India and Muslims. Two-Nation Theory Is Islamic In Origin; Even Nordics And Europeans Are Now Saying So | https://swarajyamag.com/politics/two-nation-theory-is-islamic-in-origin-even-nordics-and-europeans-are-now-saying-so

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You're simply sidestepping the main point of my post. All three religions claiming Abraham are false. How can I prove this? All three religions claim Abraham as their father. God gave Moesh 2 tablets. The first tablet reads as follows;

Exodus 20:1-7

1-3

And God conveyed all of these words, providing perspective in our presence, saying: "I am Yahowah, your God, Who relationally brought you out and delivered you from the realm of the crucible of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You will not exist with other gods in proximity of My presence.

4 "You are not to prepare or produce for yourself a carved image, or idol, or any visual representation of something which is in the heavens above, or which is on the earth below, or which is in the waters beneath the land. You are not to bow down and worship them or speak for them, and you are not to serve them or minister on their behalf.

5 For indeed, I, Yahowah, your God, am a zealous and jealous God, Who is desirous of exclusivity in our relationship, reckoning the perversity and sin of twisting and distorting, of perverting and manipulating the way, by the fathers upon the children concerning the third and the fourth generations of those who are hostile to Me.

6 But I will prepare, perform, and deliver unmerited and unfailing mercy, unearned favor, and undeserved kindness to thousands who love Me, and who closely observe, carefully examine, revere, and keep My teachings, instructions, and prescriptions for living.

7 "You are not to lift up, support, or advance, forgive or dignify, respect or tolerate, through the Name or reputation of Yahowah, your God, lifeless and worthless deceptions or devastating and destructive falsehoods. For indeed, Yahowah will not forgive or leave unpunished those who deceive, beguile, or delude, using clever trickery to mislead in association with His Name, to promote vain and ineffectual lies which lead to lifelessness and destruction, or devastating deceptions which nullify our existence, leading to emptiness."

Read the above and compare these words of God to your religion. If they differ God is not in error your religion is in error. God does not change.

God told Moesh when he asked, Who should I tell the people has sent me. What is your name?

I am, I exist, call me Yahowah. Yahowah is clear in verse 7 anyone teaching His name is not to be used, or cannot be known will not be left unpunished.

And yet all three religions neither know or use the personal name of Yahowah. The Roman church has banned mentioning the name of Yahowah. Judaism teaches the name cannot be pronounced and yet every other Hebrew word using the very same letters can be pronounced.

Islam sadly if a religion created for those who are comatose. Don't take this as a personal attack I mean you no ill will. Simply you've and most all religious people have been indoctrinated into believe the impossible is true. Islam believes Allah lives in hell where he torturous mostly women who did not please their husbands. Where Yahowah states only demons and humans like the Popes, priests, Rabbis, Imams, and Muhammad, Paul, Akiba, and their like will be imprisoned for all eternity.

Muhammad spent a great deal of time contradicting himself while claiming to speak for a black piece of volcanic glass, now encased in silver at the Cabaha. 6 differing accounts of creation, etc. The Roman church authored the Christian new testament and the early history of the church dating back to their fictional Jesus character.

Judaism claims to observe Torah of Yahowah, while ignoring it in favor of the Talmud.

All religions including social secular humanism were created by men for one purpose; To control and fleece their adherents. Yahowah hates all religions, the only men He approaches are those who have left religion, politics, and militarism. Only men like this are able to think rationally and without straining all information through their faith, politics or military mindset.

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Great article!! I've followed all the contributors and look fwd seeing more of their work.

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