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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Here's the ethics policy for the SF Standard: https://sfstandard.com/ethics-standards/

OK, and? It doesn’t say anything about paid (or otherwise) promotions.

I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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It's like defining Germany as "a state that genocided various groups", or defining Irish nationalism as "a movement characterized by terrorist attacks against British civilians". Whether or not those claims are accurate, they're not defining features of the things we're trying to define. And sure, most Zionists are not Jews because the Jewish population is too tiny to be a majority in almost any political category. S…

The zionist movement has never been peaceful, it has always aimed for violent expulsion of native populations from Palestine. One might argue that socialist or liberal zionism is not overtly jewish supremacist, but in practice they always were so I'd contest that. Unlike the irish they also did not have a reason to exterminate the palestinians specifically, whereas the irish have good reason to resist british influen…

Palestinians rejected the UN offer of their own country and tried and failed to destroy Israel. That is pretty violent.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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post #551

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OK, and? It doesn’t say anything about paid (or otherwise) promotions.

I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.

A: it looks like this article is no more than an ad

B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that!

A: That policy actually does not have anything about this.

B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they didn't even think to mention this in their policy!

Sure, this sounds extremely convincing.

(and of course, nobody ever ignored or tiptoed around a written policy, ever)

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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post #554
post #551

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I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.

A: it looks like this article is no more than an ad B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that! A: That policy actually does not have anything about this. B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they didn't even think to mention this in their policy! Sure, this sounds extremely convincing. (and of course, nobody ever ignored or tiptoed around a written policy, ever)

I think an important piece of media literacy is being able to tell if a publication is likely to follow journalistic ethics or not. SF Standard pass that test for me.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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No, it is not a democracy. Apartheid states are not democracies, and Israel is not pluralistic, it is fiercely supremacist. And, as it happens, led by at least one convicted terrorist. It wasn't Hamas that "expelled the Jews" in 2005, it was Israel that dismantled its illegal settlements. Right, by the zionist entity Hamas is describing Israel today, but leaves it open whether it might still be a genocidal settler st…

> No, it is not a democracy. Israel is a parliamentary democracy with a multi-party system, independent judiciary, elections and civil liberty. If you believe otherwise, you must be knee-deep in Hamas propaganda, as many Western leftists seem to be. > It wasn't Hamas that "expelled the Jews" in 2005, it was Israel that dismantled its illegal settlements. So Hamas made it illegal for Jews to live in Gaza? Sounds like…

No, it is not, it is a supremacist apartheid state, which is also illegally occupying and settling territory. Hamas more commonly calls israelis nazis, rather than mentioning the apartheid.

No, international law made it illegal.

It's a stretch to call them "citizens".

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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The zionist movement has never been peaceful, it has always aimed for violent expulsion of native populations from Palestine. One might argue that socialist or liberal zionism is not overtly jewish supremacist, but in practice they always were so I'd contest that. Unlike the irish they also did not have a reason to exterminate the palestinians specifically, whereas the irish have good reason to resist british influen…

Palestinians rejected the UN offer of their own country and tried and failed to destroy Israel. That is pretty violent.

They have been reluctant to give up their homeland, you mean. Yes, resistance to occupation and genocide is usually to some extent violent, because the occupier is extremely violent to begin with.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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post #558

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Palestinians rejected the UN offer of their own country and tried and failed to destroy Israel. That is pretty violent.

They have been reluctant to give up their homeland, you mean. Yes, resistance to occupation and genocide is usually to some extent violent, because the occupier is extremely violent to begin with.

Sharing the land with another group of people who are also from the region would not be "giving up their homeland".

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Because the infrastructure required to document the deaths systematically was bombed to hell.

They don't rely on infrastructure like morgues, they collected casualty reports from a Google form, and later a self-hosted form: https://sehatty.ps/moh-registration/public/add-order
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