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The problem is you can't even point a finger or single out people responsible for the current state of things. Unless we collectively accept there is a problem, the solution will not get implemented.
This is why monarchies are better than democracies. There is no accountability or ownership. A king wants to pass down something better to his progeny. A politician wants to make money and generally doesn’t care what state he leaves things in.
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A European news agency reporting more about a war in Europe than a war outside Europe is relevance bias, not a pro-Israel bias. I get more weather reports for my state than for outside it. That isn't a bias against the weather in Mexico by my local news.
I would agree with you if the BBC simply chose to not report any news on the Israel/Palestine conflict. However, as luck would have it, the BBC published 3 separate pieces of news about Israel/Palestine today. 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mz8gxzg82o 2. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rp31lk7mzo 3. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2k14n9d8y9o I’ve read all three articles, and I skimmed them again quick…
Recent BBC World headlines: Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from injuries (June 2) Gaza now worse than hell on earth, humanitarian chief tells BBC (June 4) Three journalists among five killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital (June 5) Four killed near Gaza aid centre, health workers say (June 8) Dozens of Palestinians killed while seeking aid in Gaza, hospitals say (June 11) More t…
Having anti Israeli headlines is not the same as having pro-Israeli proganda. If the writers/editors believe what they are writing, well I suppose I don't an issue with that. At least it seems widely reported on https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/100-bbc-insiders-pen-lette... So it it seems like a legitimate letter, what's less clear is which, if any, of their pro Israeli articles are written by people who believe wha…
Zionist settlers are outright evil, while most Israelis don't care or are unaware of what's going on in Gaza. Unfortunately, the world has been being paying attention and has had enough of the hasbara of ethno-nationalist supremacy BS that is plain to see. A lesson that the Holocaust/Shoah didn't teach properly to much of anyone now that those who survived it and are mostly gone, while those here now lack the oral history continuity of it. It's an intentional Pyrrhic victory in the tradition of the American western frontier and the Trail of Tears. There's now a plan to create a "humanitarian zone" concentration camp in Rafah requiring security screening and involuntary captivity for 600k.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-07/ty-article/.p...
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Freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, and freedom of receiving and imparting information and ideas. The United Nations was fully aware when making the declaration of human rights that bad actors existed. However the outcome of not having those rights have shown to be universally worse. It is not that one has to accept that we are inevitably screwed. That assumes that no…
Here's the rub: the current polarization and championing of censorship have come from abuse of free speech protections. We've had decades of Fox News and the like declaring things like "War on Christmas" and "War on Christianity" to make people in the majority feel like victims, presenting immigrants as subhumans that take jobs and commit crimes as they invade our country, and presenting trans people as deviant threa…
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Because free people should be able to decide for themselves what to read and listen to. If you want a longer answer, George Orwell penned an eloquent one all the way back in 1944: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
The problem is, we've seen how that ends up: you get bad actors masquerading as news (e.g., Fox News, Info Wars, OAN, etc.) and people flocking to low information, high entertainment vendors over good faith (if sometimes or even often flawed) traditional news (e.g., Associated Press, Reuters, BBC News, etc.). As such, you end up with a large cohort of people believing immigrants eat their pets, vaccines have microchi…
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They never collapsed from anything innate, though. They were always destroyed from outside forces. When your society represents actual freedom, you become the enemy of everyone, from capital to stalinism. Centralization of power has so far made every society deeply flawed or even hellish. The three societies you mentioned are the only ones where power was purposefully decentralized, and that seems to be the most prom…
I would argue that Rojava is one modern case that still shows hope. Although not as decentralized as those other examples, perhaps this is also why they're still there 11 years later.
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> Israel has not granted access to journalists to report independently since October 2023. Has Russia granted access by independent journalists to russian occupied Ukraine in that time period? As far as i know the answer is no. And even on the Ukraine side there has been significant restrictions E.g. a quote from https://theintercept.com/2023/06/22/ukraine-war-journalists-... “The Ukrainian government has made it vir…
If we define “worse” as higher journalist deaths, zero press freedom, no access, and active targeting, then Gaza is clearly worse for journalists right now. Ukraine/Russia conflict is obviously extremely dangerous but it allows far more media access, transparency, and foreign presence.
According to the world press freedom index, Israel has the third highest press freedom of all middle eastern countries (Qatar and Cyprus are a bit higher, everyone else in the middle east is lower in most cases much lower).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index#Rank...
I'm not saying its a paradise for reporters. There are clearly issues. But saying "zero press freedom" is a massive overstatement.