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ruiner8850 t1_j6g3p8a wrote

Reply to comment by GreatLakesLiving28 in Fox Gives Roseanne Barr’s Comedy Comeback Special “Cancel This!” an NFL Boost (Exclusive) by esporx

They also preach about how the free market should decide things without government influence, but whenever a company decides to do something because of the free market that they don't like they complain about it. They want companies to have unlimited "free speech" for things they agree with, but don't think companies who disagree with them deserve the same. In the case of social media companies Republicans actually want the government to step in and force these companies to allow theirs bigotry and lies. They want to do that all while making social media companies responsible for what their users post.

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MasterPlanPenguin t1_j6g3f8v wrote

Reply to comment by orangemaroon25 in Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000 by blaspheminCapn

Others may not though. The point remains that it should never be used except for emergencies and as others have pointed out this tone can trigger other things to happen as well which can then in turn create an emergency.

Well obviously not because you still recognise it and know it to be in use for an emergency. You aren’t desensitised. Just because you may not react doesn’t mean you are desensitised. You still know “that’s an emergency”. If it’s being played all the time in movies and tv and such you eventually hit a point where you stop thinking emergency and think “eh just a movie”. Your brain stops recognising it as an emergency sound and as just a sound that’s recognisable but not anything to worry about.

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orangemaroon25 t1_j6g2nf2 wrote

Reply to comment by MasterPlanPenguin in Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000 by blaspheminCapn

But if I'm watching a movie then I know it's not really breaking in to deliver an actual message. The concern would be with live broadcasts. I suppose airing a movie on cable you might have to edit that, but in a theater or on a home edition it shouldn't matter.

I already am desensitized to it because the tornado warnings on the radio use the same sound and the listening area of the radio station is such that I hear warnings for folks three counties away which does not affect me in the slightest.

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SuspendedInKarmaMama t1_j6g2i3r wrote

Reply to comment by 26_skinny_Cartman in Fox Gives Roseanne Barr’s Comedy Comeback Special “Cancel This!” an NFL Boost (Exclusive) by esporx

>So we just created the term canceled so people can blame others for the repercussions of their actions. Got it.

No, we created it as a term for when a witch hunting mob arises and does whatever they can to ruin someone's career/life because they said something you didn't agree with.

>"ITS NOT MY FAULT THE CUSTOMERS DONT LIKE TO BE CALLED CUNTS. FUCKING SNOWFLAKES GETTING ME CANCELED."

You're being very disingenuous. Calling customers cunts to their faces is a fire-able offense. Telling a joke to your own circle on your own private time is not. Unless frothing lunatics catches wind of it.

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MasterPlanPenguin t1_j6g27h3 wrote

Reply to comment by orangemaroon25 in Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000 by blaspheminCapn

As others have said it’s to protect the integrity of it. If it’s being used in movies and TV shows then people get use to hearing it and it loses its impact and people won’t listen to it when it is real and just ignore it as being a movie on tv or something like that. Even if it makes sense in the context of the movie you are still using something that is only meant for emergencies and that’s it. The more it gets used outside of that though the less impact it has and so emergencies won’t be listened to as much or brushed off and ignored as not being the real deal.

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