• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Name any nominally socialist country where the press wasn’t more tightly controlled than it ever was in the US.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Name any nominally socialist country

      I’m stuck right there. Nominally…in the name? or something like this:

      Or historically named/labeled socialist? Or current Democratic Socialist countries? And what type of press freedom? Seems like it would be a semester class in college to answer that, and would veer into philosophy at a minimum.

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      2 months ago

      The state is not the only system of consolidated power.

      The press obviously is tightly controlled by its wealthy owners.

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      2 months ago

      The question is who is controlling the press and to what ends? Almost all press is controlled.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, people complain about billionaires owning the press. Which is a fair thing to complain about.

      However… In communist countries, not only did the billionaires also own the press, they sent you to the gulag if you complained about it.