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Because Breitbart is one of the least trustworthy sensationalist sources of nonsense on the Internet, right up there with Infowars. The fact is the truth isn't
by xenadu02 11y ago
Because Breitbart is one of the least trustworthy sensationalist sources of nonsense on the Internet, right up there with Infowars.
The fact is the truth isn't somewhere in the middle. We shouldn't be encouraging disingenuous assholes by giving them a platform to spread deliberate lies and mis-information, no matter whether that source is "conservative" or "liberal".
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoI'm actually quite proud of my Breitbart submission. I thought it was a newsworthy story, that added valuable additional information to a topic we had been discussing. But yeah, let's just call everyone we disagree with "disingenuous assholes". The Breitbart story I tried to submit was: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/exclusive-displaced-cast-member-how-disney-replaced-me-other-americans-with-cheap-foreigners-on-h1b-visas/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/exclusive... Try clicking on this HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182135 You can't even see the link at all as an anonymous user. I don't know if it shows up for people to have 'showdead' enabled, or if it's equivalent of a hellban, where I'm the only one who can see it.