It's the same as with the Great Firewall, just much more weakly enforced. Block off enough people to get them to move to competitors that don't have ties to the Chinese government.
Bingo. John Oliver is one of the worst offenders here, I think. He has a slick, humorous presentation style and a lot of his material is genuinely informative. At the same time, as you note he'll throw in something that is either horribly cherry picked or has a bad misinterpretation.
I do like some of it, but far too often the story is going along fine and then it's like SURPRISE HAREM! SURPRISE SLAVERY (and the main character is fine with that). Too bad Crunchyroll doesn't have a tag for "not creepy".
Comedy news shows. They can be funny, but the more I learn about topics in depth the more I realize how much biased the shows are. A segment that might have previously left me feeling better informed might instead make me feel like someone is trying to fool me or tell a one sided story.
This isn't a high price, but higher than what I expected when I first thought about it. Growing up, my family had this chrome GE Bakelite toaster. Very dependable, never broke. The very definition of "they don't make 'em like they used to". I took a liking to it, so my parents gave it to me.
I started getting the history of it. My father had bought it at a garage sale in about the 1970's or 1980's. Before that, it was sold in the mid 1950's. I don't know what this one would actually go for since it's seen around 70 years of constant use, but similar toasters on eBay are going for $25-$70. Not bad, considering that people can't even give away many newer toasters.
I love that with Linux and somewhat older/underpowered computers, I can always find some software that makes it work. Things might take longer and I might have to budget myself with browser tabs a bit, but it is doable.
I am by no means poor and I save a lot of money by not having a car, but the fact of the matter is that people give me rides more than I would like. Even in Portland, a city with relatively good transit for its size given that it's in the US, most of the city is still quite inaccessible.
For a few weekends after, townspeople would find abandoned cars on the logging roads, just over on the side, two people in the front, two people in the back, everyone shot in the back of the head.
To underscore this, NBC did an article about the presence of self-identified Nazis and similar worst of the worst undesirables at CPAC. CPAC disputed that they were there by invitation, but it's hard to not see it as a plus that NBC is holding their feet to the fire.
I'm in favor. Expose the rot. Too much of the US citizenry doesn't understand the threat these people pose. It takes them actually showing their stripes to understand what's at stake.
Cheese with your whines?