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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

The BBC censors a lecture by historian Rutger Bregman to avoid offending Donald Trump.

In one line, Bregman says Trump is the most openly corrupt president in US history. Because that is what Bregman's research shows.

But the BBC values Trump's feelings over facts, and has now cut this sentence from the lecture.

https://youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs?si=YovKTw_sPCRZa83d

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Nils Hammer
@nshr@hhsocial.de replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl I don’t know whether the #BBC cares about Dumb‘s feelings. But I do know that #SLAP seems to be very effective. That should bother us all. As every single one of us could become a target. So build structures of solidarity to be prepared!

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@nshr every country should introduce anti-slap laws, because US style lawfare is going global.

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Nomdeb
@nomdeb@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl AND that is hardly a state secret. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, who isn't a member of a Republican cult, knows that Trump and those who slithered into the White House on his coattails are corrupt. Trump most of all. He's too stupid and/or too brazen to even attempt to hide it.

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Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽
@Sassinake@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl

Churchill would be disappointed

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Robin Barton
@Robo105@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl It is sad when public broadcasters become craven

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VulcanTourist
@VulcanTourist@autistics.life replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl

Censors, not "sensors", is what you meant to write.

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@VulcanTourist you are right. Thank you. Fixed it.

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Donald Roy
@djr2024@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl

Unfortunately the #bbc has form in these matters. Speakers too critical of #germany were kept off the air through much of the 1930s in the days of the sainted #johnreith .

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Lazarou@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl the UK is led by cowards....

#BBC #FreeSpeech #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #trump #RutgerBregman

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Schroedinger
@SteveClough@metalhead.club replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl So saying that Trump is the most openly corrupt president in US history is a problem.

So I guess we shouldn't say that the most openly corrupt president in US history is, in fact, the most openly corrupt president in US history. And an abusive, scummy ball of shit too.

I think he is only still alive because Satan hasn't dug a deep enough pit for the bastard yet.

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Grimblob
@Grimblob@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl Pedantic of me but it's "censors" not "sensors".

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@Grimblob you are right. Thank you. Fixed it.

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦
@osma@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

BBC was already penalized for editing statements. And now they do it again?
@randahl

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One more try
@LastTry@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl yeah life is not fair.

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Krypt3ia
@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl kinda surprised they just didn't D order it

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@krypt3ia Is there a precedence here I am unaware of?

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Krypt3ia
@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl D orders are often leveraged when uncomfortable things come up

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Vytautas Butėnas
@kroitus@river.group.lt replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@randahl I don't think those are trump's feelings, BBC is concerned about. More like billion dollar lawsuit, he threatened on them.

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