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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Times they are a changin' Some observations today getting oil changed
I always go to the dealer we got our vehicle from.
Used to, Faux snooze was the channel on the provided TV in the "lounge" The three computers provided would never go to DU but went to conservative sites.
TODAY however,
The TV was on Headline news. Not much better but better. AFter watching it for a little while, the service man came to tell me we had a nail in our back tire, but since we bought the tires there as well, they would fix it for free.
Visited the computer and first place I tried to go was DU and it came up. I cruised around for a while and read the latest news then tried to go to some conservative sites and got a blocking message saying the "rules of the network" prohibitted those particular sites.
Quite a difference!!!
xfundy
(5,105 posts)it's still censorship. And it's wrong.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)Our Network at my work blocks MANY sites
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)and the Sydney Morning Herald. But I can get American news web sites
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)months back. They had on Fox News. No one else was in there and I asked if I could change the channel. She said no that the boss wanted the station on Fox all day long. Well we had to go back for a follow up a couple of months later and they had it on a different channel all together. It was really nice.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I'd prefer tv off and access to all sites.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)but this was their computer Kiosk. Employees and customers use it. Their right to block anything
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)or to none... it is a PR issue, where the public is involved.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts).
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)You really believe that?
The cursing at my local dealership when they blocked free republic but NOT DU was to behold. That customer left, permanently...
That is what I mean by PR. That person, who did not understand the first thing of the net, would have been perfectly fine if NEITHER was allowed access to.
Bellerophon
(50 posts)Wrong... in this case it make the business look petty....
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)but do cry on
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)I just reasoned that they didn't have to provide them at all
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)for airing FOX all the time. I made sure everyone could hear it,
and as I was walking out, I said that FOX was NOT a *fair/balanced*
news station but a propaganda broadcasting station. This was a few days
before Rushbo aimed his spittle at Sandra Fluke.
A few days AFTER Rushbo aimed his spittle at Sandra Fluke, I was back in
the bank for some reason or other. Their station was tuned to HLN.
I'm of the mind to think that the Sandra Fluke attacks turned a LOT of
people off to Rushbo as well as the FOX machine. Significant numbers of people?
Probably not...
edited for clarity
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)restaurant that is convenient to the court house, and lots of attorneys gather there. For quite some time, Fox has been blaring on the teevee. Finally, I complained. The owner said he wasn't going to change it. Then a few more customers joined in, until finally, everyone sitting around the bar agreed that anything would be better than Fox. Even watching a Flubs misfield and swing wildly at curve balls.
He no longer has Fox on.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)That is exactly what I was thinking about