Unfortunately they blew their wad back in 2020.
Why bother spending a blog post speculating like this and picking away at the rules? The platforms will all air the execution for the same reason all the tech CEOs attended Trump's inauguration.
Apple's execs, for instance, definitely had enough monetary and social capital to basically just ignore Trump, and they haven't.
By your theory, couldn't (presumably other) shareholders sue over what Apple actually did? Like, maybe cowing to Trump has done damage to Apple's brand, in violation of fiduciary duty.
Even if that were a valid legal excuse (and it is not clear that it is), it doesn't hold up to moral scrutiny.
But realistically the reason they all bent the knee to Trump is probably not because they were cowards but because they welcomed him being elected.
Partly because they knew it would kill off the anti-trust enforcement that was finally starting to gain steam with Lina Khan's FTC and partly because they are rich enough to play Trump's corruption game, where as long as you pay him off and linguistically publicly fellate him once in a while the world is your oyster.
My guess is they'd all prefer to cooperate, but they know that if any of their competitors defect, then they're worse off for it. Plus, there are legal hurdles to direct cooperation among competitors.
We saw a show of uncoordinated unity after the Jan. 6 insurrection, but as soon as that unity showed signs of fraying, it became hard to sustain.
A paralyzed guy, sitting in a wheelchair, will be shot, slump over, die, blood will ooze from the wound, and then that's it.
His actions were murderous and atrocious, but there is no value in watching his life being extinguished in real time. Just because it is available to be seen doesn't mean it benefits us to see it.
I am afraid that many people will realize that too late and have to deal with the memory, if not the pangs of conscience, of having watched a snuff film.
Old Guy Thoughts: In my experience, intellectual calculations of worthiness aren't intrinsically valuable. What is harmful are those things that turn out to be harmful.
Our calculations of what is harmful - those fail all the time. Sadly, that failure often goes unrecognized.
Don't forget diaper fetish communities.
But this is where the pearls are clutched hardest?
I wonder what could possibly go wrong by setting the precedent for the state to execute people by firing squad on national news.
You can search major news right now and watch Saddam Hussein having his neck broken, that was at the bleeding edge of video streaming.
This is a natural evolution of technology.
Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII
do you think the administration does not have other targets for the firing squad who are not even criminals? I'll give you zero guesses
https://19thnews.org/2024/11/trump-liz-cheney-shot/
> “She’s (Liz Cheney) a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face,” he said.
this firing squad was not Hegseth's idea.
All executions should be public if not for transparency's sake.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
hn_acker•1h ago
> Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad
ASalazarMX•19m ago