Post AtiIBcEShbcVcKRjG4 by rms@mastodon.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AtiIBcEShbcVcKRjG4 by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2025-05-03T09:59:23Z
       
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       [1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/press-freedom-us-trumphttps://stallman.org/glossary.html#wreckerhttps://stallman.org/glossary.html#wreckerhttps://stallman.org/glossary.html#magat*The US used to be the gold standard for press freedom. Not any more.* One other cause of this is that mainstream media are no longer independent. They have been bought, either by billionaires that are easily corrupted by the wreckers or by bigger companies that don't dare get on the
       
 (DIR) Post #AtiIBxKCHTgZ2CI6c4 by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2025-05-03T09:59:24Z
       
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       [2/2] wrecker's bad side. People have said to me that the US Constitution ought to be changed to make it harder to subversion by powerful elected officials. If that is possible, but I don't see how it could work. (Never mind that the magats would block the effort.) Every governmental system is made of humans, If the most powerful of those humans want to make the system bad, we can't count on the system to stop them.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtiUJFwMfLEkFMOJ1s by quoidian@mastodon.online
       2025-05-03T12:15:10Z
       
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       @rms It's the definition that the US follows that freedom of the press means the freedom to purchase a press.