Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, September 7, 2023
Episode Date: September 7, 2023Standards of honesty and civility are non-existent on the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
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Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up.
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On this Thursday, if you read stuff on the internet, be very careful.
There are absolutely no standards of honesty or civility on some websites and spending time
on them will hurt you in many ways.
Most of all, it will diminish your humanity.
Cidistic people roam the net and post awful things.
knows that. In the past, being a gutter snipe could get you sued or punched. President
Andrew Jackson shot it out with smear merchants. But today, emotionally disturbed individuals
can post hate anonymously. Recently, I was reading a news site when I came across attacks
on the actress Jennifer Garner. It seems she went jogging without makeup, and a photo
stalker took some pictures. The woman was then
viciously maligned on the net for her appearance. Well, I saw the photos and the
actress looked just fine. The criticism of her was insane but most likely
hurtful if she saw it. Standards of civility are in a free fall all over the
world as cyberspace gives power to the emotionally ill as well as
evil-doers with pernicious agendas. Pope Francis
and other religious leaders have warned about moral dangers on the internet.
Here in America, there's little our society can do about destructive postings
because of the First Amendment.
But some public condemnation might help.
Back after this.
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