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What's the alternative? What is the best source of information available to the public? It's easy to take potshots, show me a news source that's better.
Financial times.
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I don't remember seeing a single pro-brexit op-ed in the FT. The FT isn't publishing competing views. It very much aligned itself to the NYT's "only the facts that fits the narrative" approach.
There are also no pro-pollution op-eds, or anti-vaccine op-ends in the FT, because they hold themselves to a standard of not publishing "he-said-she-said" fair-and-balanced views, but to give some insight into which of the two sides of an argument seems to have evidence on its side. Brexiters didn't (and don't) have the facts or watertight arguments on theirs side, especially economically speaking.
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I would have agreed with you 5 years ago. Unfortunately pretty much every article in the FT has become politically motivated, following very much the NYT's "only the facts that fit the narrative". The FT is openly running campaigns on many topics, and then you aren't reading news, you are reading propaganda. The editor changed in January, I unsubscribed a month before. Perhaps things have changed since.
It's gotten a lot worse since January. I've subscribed for over a decade, and for the first time am questioning whether I should keep paying to be misinformed. It's very strange as FT subscribers often have money at stake and the last thing they want is to be surprised by events. Maybe their subscription numbers are falling and Nikkei is chasing the mass market and ad revenue. I don't see that working, as divisive cl…
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When we debate cancellation, we're mostly debating other kinds of harassment: doxxing, pressuring one's employer to terminate an employee, and defamation. Specifically, we're talking about harassment campaigns --in other words, large movements that engage in any of these behaviors for the purpose of punishing wrongthink. While these mobs have a few people who make death threats, there aren't usually large enough numb…
> When we debate cancellation, we're mostly debating other kinds of harassment: Sure, but I think it is unfortunately that this is the only thing that people talk about. The reality is that there is a whole bunch of stuff that is really really bad, such as death threats and the like, that will happen whenever there is a hate mob/harassment campaign that was started against someone. When people try to defend these kin…
But everyone should condemn violence and harassment from their own ideological cohort.
"truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else" This is the primary problem with woke ideologues. They pretend to know the definitive answers to problems that have plagued societies for hundreds and thousands of years. Anyone who disagree with their answers at all is "problematic" at best but much more likely deeply racist or s…
Please stop creating accounts to do political battle on HN. Doing that will eventually get your main account banned as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why do I have to keep track of my throwaway accounts? The whole point of a throw away account is to throw it away. My browser doesn't save history. I can't remember what my username was the last time I restarted my browser.
I could easily create throwaway accounts through IP proxies that would make banning/linking accounts very difficult. I don't bother because I assumed a high level of ethics and competence on the part of HN moderators. I don't want you to look up my accounts at all but I trust you enough to not doxx me.
The fact that you are looking up throwaway account users and linking it their other accounts seems like a huge ethical violation. I don't know why you would do it in cases where the person is not actually violating the guidelines except for the dubious throwaway guideline.
1. Please change the guideline on throwaway accounts. Since cancel culture has become a thing, any opinion outside of the orthodoxy is "sensitive." The idea that "users should have an identity that others can relate to" seems incredibly unimportant by comparison. HN is so large now that I doubt anyone but moderators can really keep track of usernames anymore.
2. Please stop looking up people's accounts yourself. And please stop threatening people for using throwaways to participate anonymously while putting forth unorthodox views in good faith.
3. Please start deleting identifying account information (IPs/user agents) after some number of days. Make it impossible for a future hacker (which could be a hostile state actor) to doxx people that used throwaway accounts.
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wow... you are literally embodying the cancel culture by claiming that their opinion is irrelevant because of some HR pay practice you discovered that is totally orthogonal to the conversation? Should we cancel your opinion because of some seemingly inconsistent opinion you had in your comment history? This is exactly the practice of arguing the arguer, rather than the argument, and it's a bad faith tactic.
> This is exactly the practice of arguing the arguer, rather than the argument, and it's a bad faith tactic. Her claim is that she, herself, is being exceptionally victimized and silenced; it’s literally impossible rebut this without arguing against her, specifically. Harper’s’ unpaid internships was a more general example. Had I been speaking about Bari Weiss specifically, I might have mentioned her support for depl…
You are chosing to ignore the cancel culture that exists.
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> This is exactly the practice of arguing the arguer, rather than the argument, and it's a bad faith tactic. Her claim is that she, herself, is being exceptionally victimized and silenced; it’s literally impossible rebut this without arguing against her, specifically. Harper’s’ unpaid internships was a more general example. Had I been speaking about Bari Weiss specifically, I might have mentioned her support for depl…
no, they want people to get fired and lose sources of revenue. Look what's happening with uncle bob on twitter. Plenty of examples where people are kicked of conferences for wearing a red hat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484676 Jordan Peterson gets his offer to teach at Cambridge University rejected after a twitter cancel culture mob started attacking the Uni. You are chosing to ignore the cancel culture th…
I don’t know what’s happening to Uncle Bob on Twitter, but right now his account has 150,000 followers. So, what consequences is he actually suffering here?
What if you switched out the MAGA hat for one bearing the rebel flag or a misogynistic slur? It seems eminently reasonable to me for a conference to kick people out for refusing to remove a superfluous article of clothing that makes other attendees feel unwelcome.
Jordan Peterson’s offer was rescinded not because of a “twitter cancel culture mob” but by students and faculty at the University, who absolutely have a right to decide whom to allow into their community: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/20/cambridge-...
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no, they want people to get fired and lose sources of revenue. Look what's happening with uncle bob on twitter. Plenty of examples where people are kicked of conferences for wearing a red hat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484676 Jordan Peterson gets his offer to teach at Cambridge University rejected after a twitter cancel culture mob started attacking the Uni. You are chosing to ignore the cancel culture th…
You misunderstand me: the people complaining about “cancel culture” are the ones who simply want to be able to air their opinions without hearing criticism. I don’t know what’s happening to Uncle Bob on Twitter, but right now his account has 150,000 followers. So, what consequences is he actually suffering here? What if you switched out the MAGA hat for one bearing the rebel flag or a misogynistic slur? It seems emin…
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This is a well phrased variant of: "since they're critical, they must be wrong".
You can be critical without being dehumanizing.
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Whats worse is this phenomenon isn't contained to the NYT all media it appears is infected.
I think the point is that the media has been over run with a virus of the mind, and EVEN the NYT has become infected