Every time I visit my relatives house, Fox News is blaring on the tv. I share my cable account with this person, so it annoys me that my money goes towards that poor excuse for a news channel.
Today, I was asked to fix something. While doing this, I blocked fox news and fox business on the cable account. It may be petty, but I can’t stand hearing that propaganda.
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‘Mericans…propaganda over science.
And then everybody clapped!!
Your life will go better if you let people think for themselves.
I was looking for a clapping gif but no gifs allowed I’m guessing so this’ll have to do…
clapping gif
(Use your imagination)
When my MIL visits I often restart the router at inopportune times like in the middle of Trump rallies.
I have put parental locks on that channel at my friends’ homes..
lol
You are doing the lord’s work (from an atheist)
There is a couple in town that are in their 80s, who I consider my pseudo parents, and they always have Fox News on. I used to only visit when it was nice enough to sit on the patio – they are HUGE maggot peeps and we tend to steer clear of politics. Occasionally they would bring up something like how many murderers and criminals have crossed the border and other “fine” Fix News quotes. I tried to give them the real info, but alas it only made me mad and sad to try.
Since the election, I have only seen them at a few local events (super small town) and I treat them with the respect I always have, but the going out to dinner, hanging out on the patio and watching local sports teams, I just can’t/won’t do.
I love and respect them for the overall people they are, I can’t stand their view on how the US is treating people, so I won’t subject myself to the bs
I miss them, but my resolve in treating people with respect, dignity and love is the basis of who I am and always will be.
I can say the same about cnn
I wish I could just block The View from my mom’s TV.. but she has the right to watch what she wants so it is what it is
Wow. Lol
should have blocked all the news it’s all bullshit
ah yes typical “i can’t handle opposing viewpoints”
Uh oh the Tolerate My Intolerance people are commenting 🙄
Imagine if someone posted this and talked about blocking left wing media.
OP would get crucified in the comments. Reddit is such a joke.
Op did this because they don’t have the balls to tell their relative that they don’t want them watching fox news under OP‘s authority.
Coward.
They will just move to NewsMax
Exactly how many people have you called a fascist?
You pay for it! That’s yours. This is just the market at work
Next time – log into their router and block meta, x, fox, ig, fb etc etc
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Lot of masks slipping in these comments
Nobody here understands why the parents watch fox and the kids watch cnn? It’ll happen at some point lol
don’t blame u. i watched fox news one time for 10 mins and i lost so many brain cells it was just so stupid like how do pple actually watch this show and take it so seriously?? fox news they take everything out of context or just make up their own stories.
They legally stated they’re entertainment not news
I’ve done that to all the in-laws tvs and my own household.
Don’t forget to block OANN, every fox person i know who left that channel just found OANN and got into Infowars levels of extremism
I hate to break it to you but if they watch it or not your money is going to them.
Maybe they’ll pull themselves up by their bootstraps and pay for their own cable account.
Thank you for your contribution to betterment of humanity.
Fighting the good fight
FOX News is only a news source when they are not in front of a judge. When they are called onto the carpet, they are merely “Entertainment”.
Next time block Oann and newsmax
My power move would have been to block them from using my account for their access. Let em pay for their own fucking cable.
LOL
You may save their minds from the garbage
If you pay for it, then you can control it. 🙂 I’m proud of boss.
peace. 🙂
LOL
In the lounge at my work it was also on fox, so every time I went in there I changed it to the history channel.
🤣🤣🤣
Everyone needs to do this for Fox, Newsmax and OAN. For their country.
Block Newsmax.
I think you might have done the world a service. Cheers.
They can bloody well pay for their own poison
Dont blame you!
God bless you
Oh that is awesome and funny lol
I live with my parents. It’s the first thing on the tv when they wake up, it’s the last thing on the tv when they fall asleep, it’s on the tv when we’re at a hotel, and it’s the first thing on the radio when we’re in the car. Fortunately, if I’m at home I can just go to a different room and if I’m not I can wear ear buds to block it out somewhat.
That’s funny! I should have thought about that at my relatives home 😂😂😂
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If it’s your cable account, you can also call the company and demand that they remove it (they’re paying for it, or more exactly making you pay for it)
doing God’s work
Re-train their youtube and fb algorithms too if you get the chance
Lol
Someone needs to create a fake channel that takes fox news and fixes it so we can switch their channels
I blocked that mental illness on my dads TV years ago, within a week he went from being the most rage filled racist subhuman freak I’ve ever met in my life back to being an actual member of the human race. His blood pressure also leveled out pretty quickly too.
HAHAHA! I did the same thing to my condo complex’s gym TV. I went into parental controls and set a PIN for the Fox News channel.
We do this every time we stay at a hotel. Most places use the street number as the code, so you can often add channels to the parental controls.
If you are paying for it, you can set the rules.
Oh i used to do that in the staff lounge for the hospital i used to work for
I would also mute the patients tv when i was working in their room. I got tired of listening to those smug scumbags on fox news
It’s really sad how many patients choose to lay in bed all day and watch that “news” channel 24/7
Same. I’d like to block it.
People don’t understand the effect of having a 24/7 one party propaganda network. When you experience it then you can understand why US politics is so screwed up.
After my crazy MAGA mother refused to participate in my niece’s 10th birthday party because she just HAD to watch that idiotic Trump/Musk live interview being streamed on Twitter a few years ago, I edited the hosts file on her laptop so FoxNews.com resolved to 0.0.0.0
But Fox themselves said they are not a news program but only entertainment.
I have been very tempted to unsubscribe my dad from all his right wing emails.
Now if you can slyly add another more moderate news station you might trick them into consuming less batshit crazy news stories
I do this in hotels with new tvs.
I don’t see an issue here. If they don’t like it they can pay for their own cable
Parental Controls
If you have cable TV in the US, you are very likely paying money to Fox News even if you never turn on the channel. They have negotiated to be a part of damn near every basic cable package, and you can’t opt out of it. They will get their carrier fees, which are passed onto you in your cable bill. If you don’t want to support Fox News, you need to cancel your whole tv package unfortunately.
Its not a news channel. Every time they go to court for a lie they claim to be an entertainment company. Its how they do what they do.
We did similar with Dad’s emails. Deleted and unsubscribed from a heap of right wing nutter crap.
I’m sorry you’ve lost or are maneuvering life with a person lost to the Fox News cult. Truly.
Blocking extremist propaganda, cable providers should try it next!
FoxNews is Elder Abuse … block from all homes with over 50 yr old tenants.
Wow you really got them there.
not even petty imo u paying for it so u got every right to control what’s on there. plus it’s not like they can’t watch literally anything else. i’d lose my mind too hearing that bs in the background all day. honestly blocking it was prob the kindest way u coulda handled it. ppl act like it’s just a channel but it really does rot brains fr
I bet they think your news station of choice is propaganda too, buddy.
honestly u just did silent self-care and i respect it. it’s one thing if they paid for their own shit but u literally cover the bill and have to sit thru that noise? hell no. they prob gon be mad once they figure it out but oh well, actions got consequences lol. just act clueless if they ask, like “weird… must be a glitch or sum.” keep ur peace babe.
The Reddit liberal cesspool in full effect here. What a bunch of embarrassing babies.
All news channels now are 99.9% entertainment, 0.1% actual journalism.
Contrast that when Cronkite et. al. were the anchors.
Human failure
Aren’t you the brave one.
he said while heading home to watch CNN
These comments are kind of funny and ironic 😂
Sure Jan
You going to delete the post internet next
Best do with all cable news if I were you
Nah, this ain’t it chief
It is very nice of you to share your account with relatives. Censorship, Censorship. You can do what you want because after all it is your account, but being nice enough to share account and then not allowing them to watch what they choose watch just took away the generous act in my opinion.
Nice Job Jackass.
CNN has no spin! MSN is pure fact!!!
So you’re not for free speech? Got it.
Fake and lame.
Wow, you have very poor boundaries and are passive aggressive. Great job!
You could just not share your account.
What would your reaction/feelings be if someone on the other side of the aisle did this to their relatives, blocking your preferred channels?
Would it be the same level of justifiable, or would things change? Why was this the option instead of conversation?
Liberalism at its finest.
Lack of inclusion? ✅
Hypocrisy? ✅
Lack of 1st Amendment Rights? ✅
(Bill of Rights and other Amendments ratified them as inalienable rights not granted by, but affirmed to have btw)
Turnabout would not be fair play? ✅
(If they deleted CNN, MSNBC, etc. and said the same thing, you would decry them and try and have them hanged for their lack of tolerance and inclusion)
Lack of appreciation when sharing? ✅
Moral Superiority? ✅
Petty attention seeking behavior trying to affirm moral superiority? ✅
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They are all propaganda. OP just doesn’t agree with THAT particular propaganda.
I’m with you, do everything you can to fight ignorance.
Such a fascist thing to do.
Imagine being so distasteful that you decide to change things in other people’s life, which they obviously don’t want. Pitiful human
That’s not right. Would you like them removing and blocking your stuff without your permission?
Yeah! How dare they have their own thoughts and opinions!! I’m just going to censor things I don’t like! I wish our government would censor things, too! Pesky 1st amendment!!
Democrats don’t have real arguments, so their answer is to use force to shut the other side up.
Not petty at all.
My mom told me well before the election that Fox News has become too left-leaning – she only watches NewsMax now 🙄
OMG you made my day. Thank YOU.
Why can’t you just tell them to get their own account?
Thank you for your service
Good shit. That shit is radiation.
You’re doing the lords work sir. Good job.
I always recommend people check out the media bias and factuality of their news sources. I’m not even talking about using a paid service like whatever ground news is doing I’m talking about just checking with websites like media bias fact check. Here Is the MBFC on Fox News And you can see the reason why a lot of people don’t trust it and why they have a reputation strong enough to make people want to do this.
If you want to stick to high factuality and very low bias it’s best to stick with Reuters In most cases as they are consistently ranked amongst the highest in factual and sourced reporting and some of the least in biased or loaded language.
Oh I can sympathize sister. My grandpa had Fox on constantly so I set his house on fire. I just wish he could be compassionate and tolerant like us.
Because different views are scary.
Why would you care what your relatives watch on TV? That was incredibly insensitive and really juvenile on your part.
What if they blocked YOUR favorite channel? Then what? Are you going to confront them because, we’ll, you’re better than them, eh?
Imagine what a petty little human being you have to be to do this
Yall are getting out of hand lmao, let your family members watch what they want….
Bragging about censorship is something. The irony is palpable.
Wishing you a speedy recovery from TDS!
My mother decided to cut the cord in her last three years, and we introduced her to YouTube on her Roku TV. She was an avid Fox News viewer but the change really did her mental outlook so much good.
I figured she’d find a lot of alt-right political nonsense, but she ended up being a complete fan of …. wait for it …. parkour.
I saw my Mom laugh again, spontaneously, after she ended watching FNC.
Thats real funny to me. Although my logical mind says they have the right to watch whatever they want-this is still America. If it is such a nuisance, have them get their own provider.
In the old folk home I work in. I went to the server room and turned the sound off on Fox News
That’s what the left does. Tried to silence.