Gaines Gunn on Give Your Opinion: Should the media censor people?
Gaines Gunn
Give Your Opinion: Should the media censor people?
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- 0:00 What's up, guys?
- 0:01 Today I want to talk about a really important topic.
- 0:03 Um, I think this topic is something that's kind of come into light again, um, especially with Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled off of his show by Disney Um for saying some stuff about Charlie Kirk and his assassination.
- 0:14 And kind of the question I pose is like whether censorship is right and just.
- 0:19 Um, I feel like a lot of buzzwords are thrown out um regarding like media reporting and information on social media and in the media, and it's you know, misinformation and misleading information, and I think these words can be a little bit dangerous.
- 0:35 Um I think that you know, we we see Donald Trump, he was banned on Twitter, he was banned on Snapchat, Instagram.
- 0:42 Literally, well, I don't know, he may have been unbanned on Instagram.
- 0:45 But the thing the point of the matter is, um Trump claims that people banned him and silenced him as a way to hurt his campaign for presidency and to silence a competitor.
- 0:58 Um, whereas other people say that he was inciting violence and spreading misinformation.
- 1:02 So I think it's really important, you know, whether or not censorship is something that should be in our media and something that's a part of our politics and you know, everything in that sense.
- 1:15 You know, like you see in um the UK, people are now being arrested for things that they say on social media, and it's like I feel like if we continue to go down this censorship road, we could end up in a place where you post something controversial on social media, and twelve hours later you have the police knocking at your door to arrest you and charge you with some sort of um crime, you know.
- 1:38 And so I think it's important, you know, considering the Jimmy Kimmel show getting pulled off the air, to take into account the Tucker Carlson incident, you know.
- 1:46 It it happens on both sides.
- 1:48 Um, you know, Tuckle Carlson and Fox News had a huge fallout, and I think it's just important to understand um, you know, like there are um false things going on in the media, but I don't necessarily think that it's up to the corporations to decide what is true and what should be given to the people.
- 2:08 I think people should be intelligent enough and do their research about things to the point where they know what they're being told is true or false.
- 2:16 I don't think that it's up to people who might be lobbied and paid and swayed by um corporations and people in power to censor people.
- 2:26 That's just my point.
- 2:26 I'd love for people to give their opinion in the comments.
- 2:29 See you on the next one.