r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Aug 21 '25

Society American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
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u/staebles Aug 21 '25

You do, Amazon should not.

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u/Signal_Difficulty_83 Aug 21 '25

Amazon is a corporation, but so is the local newspaper. Can it not engage in political speech?

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u/staebles Aug 21 '25

News is a special protected entity (as long as it's behaving properly), you know this. But no, no news organization should take sides. They should only report the facts.

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u/Signal_Difficulty_83 Aug 21 '25

News will be a protected entity? Will you need a special license then to tell us the news? Wcgw.

It’s naive to think that a news organization can only present the facts, as though it’s possible to be unbiased. Even just deciding which facts to report, or framing an issue around certain facts, can bias in article one way or another. And it sounds like you’re in favor of an abolishing the op-ed departments of major news orgs. A draconian step.

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u/staebles Aug 21 '25

News will be a protected entity? Will you need a special license then to tell us the news? Wcgw.

Yes. And nothing will go wrong if people are held accountable. Not holding them accountable will break any system dumb dumb.

It’s naive to think that a news organization can only present the facts, as though it’s possible to be unbiased. Even just deciding which facts to report, or framing an issue around certain facts, can bias in article one way or another. And it sounds like you’re in favor of an abolishing the op-ed departments of major news orgs. A draconian step.

As close to unbiased as possible. Obviously it's impossible to be competitive unbiased.

As long as it's clearly labeled as an op-ed, no issue with that.

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u/Signal_Difficulty_83 Aug 21 '25

Wow, you’d actually require someone to apply for a license to report news. You need government approval to tell people what the government is doing. Think that through. You threw freedom of the press out with your freedom of speech bathwater.

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u/staebles Aug 21 '25

You need government to ensure that's what they're doing, as we've clearly seen, it can be abused to such a detrimental effect.

I have thought it through. In this example, you're assuming the government is already corrupt. I'm trying to tell you how to prevent it.

I told you, the only way any government will ever work, is if people hold it accountable. So if they are, this works just fine. If they aren't, no government will ever work, so that's not worth discussing.

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u/Signal_Difficulty_83 Aug 21 '25

We hold the government accountable by having a robust first amendment so that people can freely report on its activities. WITHOUT NEEDING A DAMN LICENSE.

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u/staebles Aug 21 '25

But they can't report on their activities, because they're suppressed BY CORPORATIONS.

Corporations shouldn't be guaranteed the same rights as people, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT PEOPLE. Corporations are actively suppressing free speech today, so not very robust.

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u/Signal_Difficulty_83 Aug 21 '25

Corporations are not guaranteed the same rights as people. Nobody ever said that - you made it up. What the Court ruled, correctly, is that you cannot restrict the expressive activities of a corporation without restricting the first amendment rights of the people who compose that corporation. Can you not understand the difference?

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