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Probably not. Sooner rather than later most free press will be shut down by trump and the only news that anyone will get is whatever there government wants you to hear. Stories like this will disappear.
That's already the case.
Do you remember every single mainstream outlet falling in line to promote the Iraq war? To blackout the antiwar protests? Going to Occupy Wallstreet and interviewing random weirdos instead of the organizer's designated press people? The coverage of Ukraine? The coverage of Israel?
Nah the free press like the billionaires and everyone else who wants to stay in business will lick Trump's balls.
I think you vastly overestimate how organized the Trump admin is. I'm sure they will try, though.
It’ll only get more competent and organized as time goes on.
Don't you think that's a bit of a hysterical take?
Stories like this one, someone noticing that a website has been taken down, will disappear??
It's hardly the peak of investigative journalism or a complicated story requiring hundreds of hours of work by a trained journalist.
Hysterical as in funny? It's already happening.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-pentagon-says-it-will-rotate-out-some-media-offices-2025-02-01/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fcc-investigation
If you cut off a story before it's printed, you never even have to take it down.
No, I mean hysterical as in overly exaggerated due to high emotion.
Well, you're just wrong on that front given the examples shown
The examples given are about Trump limiting access for news agencies to the government, and trying to bully big news orgs. How would those things prevent someone writing a story about a public website disappearing?
Don't get me wrong, what he's doing is bad for press freedom and will have a chilling effect on the more complicated stories that need more journalistic input and explanation to gain traction and public understanding, but as I said "this kind of story" isn't exactly complicated and saying "stories like this will disappear" is just not realistic.
I'm pretty sure by "stories like this" they're referring to ones that highlight the activities of the Trump administration, not literally stories about websites going down (if that's a mischaracterization of what you're saying, I apologize, but I'm not sure what your meaning was if not that)
You got my meaning, and yes maybe that is what the OC meant.
I think we've got to be a bit careful and keep our powder dry sometimes with trump stuff. Pretty much everything he does is bad and shocking, but if we overreact or exaggerate it makes people less likely to listen when it's a really bad thing that might actually cur through. I'm pretty sure the reason he has got away with a lot of stuff so far is that people have just tuned out the constant noise.
And that's exactly the goal: bury us in so much bullshit we don't know which end is up and no matter what we react to it'll be the wrong thing, and hope that we all give up and give in to feeling helpless
You seriously wrote that first paragraph and can't see what the other person is saying?
I think it's hyperbolic, that's the whole point of my first comment
Have you watched the news in the US in the time period since the original post? Has any news media even mentioned this? A post on mastodon is great. I would venture that 99% of the population from the US doesn't use Mastodon, tho I don't really know for sure the numbers . Of the percentage that do, how many are going to see this person's post?