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Twirrimtoday at 7:14 AM4 repliesview on HN

The opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics included a celebration of the National Health Service, which got mysteriously cut from the broadcast in the US, at a time when there was a bunch of fuss over Obamacare that had come into effect a year or two before.

Was hard not to imagine that was a deliberate choice.


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riedeltoday at 9:35 AM

Even if a large conspiracy isn't involved, I believe that biases in worldview can contribute to these effects. However, I still think it's important to inform people of things they might be missing and hold media accountable for their choices, regardless of whether those choices are random or unknowingly biasedWe need to be careful not to fall into the allure of "fake media" in our outrage, as this could ultimately benefit populists in the long run.

atoavtoday at 8:10 AM

Well the "no censorship!"-crowd in rhe US has been strangly focused on the censorship of racists, bigots and nazis. I don't think they consider censorship that benefits the Neo-feudalist lords as censorship.

dborehamtoday at 7:17 AM

Drug companies and insurers are big advertisers.

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wtcactustoday at 8:10 AM

So, due to US ideological propaganda, US media censored the part where the British do their ideological propaganda bit?

Well, at least the censorship was not paid by tax payer money… unlike the propaganda bit by the British, that was fully paid by taxpayer money.

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