"The real news is my banned covid conspiracy fb page. Everything else serves the elites" yeah ok
Is this from the article?
The sentiment is there. The article claims the "Real News" is banned from mainstream platforms.
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#62> but it isn’t the news and it hasn’t been for ages. I have a better idea. The news has always been shit. There's this weird fetish with "freedom of the press" that distorts the fact that news is still a business, run by free market forces, with the same distributions of incompetence and corruption as any free market. It used to be the "nightly news", but we now have a 24/7 always-on consumption culture and news orgs…
The 24-7 news is more of a misnomer. Most networks switch to infomercials past midnight or so. Its not like there are reproters the hq 24-7. .
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but journalists are usually journalist because they WANT to be journalists So do accountants. And actuaries. And doctors. And programmers. And artists. And pretty much most every other profession. There's nothing special about clergy or journalists or doctors because they chose the career they did. > and local journalists routinely put in 60-80 hours of work This is just more romanticism. I'd wager that the distrib…
Yeah, I'll put my 13 years of working around newsrooms and with journalists against your fantasy of what they're like any day.
I don't see why you think "I worked around a newsroom for 13 years" is a good rebuttal to the fairly trivial claim that most professionals chose said profession because they wanted to do it.
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#65Uh-huh, because if something is bullshit then anything that disagrees with it is anti-bullshit. Fauci says masks are bad? That clearly self-serving bullshit entitles you to any reality you want. Don't think Covid is real? Well, some liberal elite once told you a false thing and they also believe Covid is real, so it's the bullshit. You're standing up to the bullshit. They only have to step in their own once to entitl…
Quite a few people seem to think this way, sadly.
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#66"The real news is my banned covid conspiracy fb page. Everything else serves the elites" yeah ok
Is this from the article?
I'm assuming it's a satire in response to the following line, which claims that banned Facebook pages are "the anti-bullshit universe":
> One option, more popular each day, is to retreat to the anti-bullshit universe of alternative media sources. These are the podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, newsletters, and Facebook pages that regularly vanish from circulation for violating “community standards” and other ineffable codes of conduct, oft-times after failing “fact-checks” by the friendly people at Good Thoughtkeeping.
I also like that the author explicitly refuses to provide any examples of these "anti-bullshit alternative media sources". Very common tactic amongst this ilk - complain about aggressive censorship and how George Orwell was specifically warning us about Twitter, all the while doing everything you can to avoid people seeing what was actually incurring bans.
I see it all the time in communities I run, people start trying to spin off alternative sites and talk about how impinges on free speech, and then when you check what they were banned for there's a tirade of racial slurs directed at other members of the community.
It's insanely hard to get your content consistently removed from Twitter or Facebook, they do everything they can to avoid having to hire more moderators. It can happen, but then providing the examples will get everyone on your side immediately. Anyone who claims that they're being unfairly censored and yet refuses to show the content that actually got removed is trying to hide something.
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#67"The real news is my banned covid conspiracy fb page. Everything else serves the elites" yeah ok
Is this from the article?
The author doesn't spell it out but he mentions that the idiot story about Hunter Biden's laptop was totally real and not Russia using Giuliani like a stooge and he implies that if you don't think covid was leaked from a lab you're an idiot.
So yea, I don't doubt that this guy thinks facebook is being mean by not letting him spread conspiracy bullshit on their platform.
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#68I feel a bit privileged, and in a dangerous way, because feeling like you're special can be an illusion that is easily shattered. Here's what I mean. If I was born earlier, like say a baby boomer, I'd have less education in critical thinking, but I'd also be more protected by the news media than the time when gen Z grew up. By that I mean most of the stuff in the paper at the time was down the middle, somewhat bland…
> I'd also be more protected by the news media than the time when gen Z grew up. By that I mean most of the stuff in the paper at the time was down the middle, somewhat bland but serious, and the editors took it upon themselves to keep things balanced.
Is this really true? Or is it an illusion due to you being the target audience of the MSM then? For example, there are no lack of claims and incidents of media bias for the pre-naughts in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias_in_the_United_State...
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this from the article?
The author doesn't spell it out but he mentions that the idiot story about Hunter Biden's laptop was totally real and not Russia using Giuliani like a stooge and he implies that if you don't think covid was leaked from a lab you're an idiot. So yea, I don't doubt that this guy thinks facebook is being mean by not letting him spread conspiracy bullshit on their platform.
> was totally real
I missed that part, any chance you could quote the text where he says this?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this from the article?
I'm assuming it's a satire in response to the following line, which claims that banned Facebook pages are "the anti-bullshit universe": > One option, more popular each day, is to retreat to the anti-bullshit universe of alternative media sources. These are the podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, newsletters, and Facebook pages that regularly vanish from circulation for violating “community standards” and other ineffab…
> I see it all the time in communities I run, people start trying to spin off alternative sites and talk about how impinges on free speech, and then when you check what they were banned for there's a tirade of racial slurs directed at other members of the community.
Are you suggesting that this person shares these behaviors?