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This is the second NYT article I see here today that is calling for more censorship because of some unsubstantiated claims. These people must be completely out

This is the second NYT article I see here today that is calling for more censorship because of some unsubstantiated claims. These people must be completely out of their minds.

cmdrfred 10y ago
They just want social media to do what main stream media has been doing since William Randolph Hearst.
dominotw 10y ago
I am guessing a reaction to total loss of trust in media by general public. Now they have launched a mass propaganda against alternative news by calling them "fake news" . Nytimes just doesn't get it.
- tdb7893 10y ago
  I don't know if you have never met anyone who thought Obama was born in Kenya, or that Hillary Clinton murdered one of her campaign staffers but there is definitely fake news out there.
  - xname2 10y ago
    I don't know if you have never read any trump anti-semitic photo story on washington post?
    - usefulcat 10y ago
      Sounds like you and GP are in agreement then.
      - xname2 10y ago
        Then why was I downvoted?
        grzm 10y ago
        Likely because of your tone and the way you conveyed your point, rather than the point yourself. That attracts down votes as well. If your message was that this happens regardless of party, you can say just that. FWIW, I think the tone of your parent could be better as well, which may have contributed to the manner in which you posted. Given no one has commented on why they down voted, this is just speculation on my part based on what I've seen elsewhere on HN.
  - makomk 10y ago
    Yeah, and sometimes it's in the actual news. For example, I just saw an investigated a tweet from election day claiming that voters in Chesapeake had to be escorted by the police due to intimidation by Trump supporters, and found an local news article debunking it: http://wavy.com/2016/11/08/police-no-reports-of-voter-intimidation-at-chesapeake-precinct/ http://wavy.com/2016/11/08/police-no-reports-of-voter-intimi... And right below that, an IBT page repeating it verbatim without investigation: http://www.ibtimes.com/voter-fraud-2016-where-election-day-reports-intimidation-are-coming-2443527 http://www.ibtimes.com/voter-fraud-2016-where-election-day-r... It's not uncommon these days for news organisations to lazily use Twitter as a source in this way. Actually contacting the police force which had supposedly escorted voters would involve actual reporting.
  - ryanx435 10y ago
    there is pretty good circumstancial evidence that the Clintons have had several people killed. The most recent is the reporter in Haiti who was investigating the Clinton foundation's alleged child trafficking.

This is the second NYT article I see here today that is calling for more censorship because of some unsubstantiated claims. These people must be completely out of their minds.

cmdrfred 10y ago

They just want social media to do what main stream media has been doing since William Randolph Hearst.

dominotw 10y ago

I am guessing a reaction to total loss of trust in media by general public. Now they have launched a mass propaganda against alternative news by calling them "fake news" . Nytimes just doesn't get it.

tdb7893 10y ago
I don't know if you have never met anyone who thought Obama was born in Kenya, or that Hillary Clinton murdered one of her campaign staffers but there is definitely fake news out there.
- xname2 10y ago
  I don't know if you have never read any trump anti-semitic photo story on washington post?
  - usefulcat 10y ago
    Sounds like you and GP are in agreement then.
    - xname2 10y ago
      Then why was I downvoted?
      - grzm 10y ago
        Likely because of your tone and the way you conveyed your point, rather than the point yourself. That attracts down votes as well. If your message was that this happens regardless of party, you can say just that. FWIW, I think the tone of your parent could be better as well, which may have contributed to the manner in which you posted. Given no one has commented on why they down voted, this is just speculation on my part based on what I've seen elsewhere on HN.
- makomk 10y ago
  Yeah, and sometimes it's in the actual news. For example, I just saw an investigated a tweet from election day claiming that voters in Chesapeake had to be escorted by the police due to intimidation by Trump supporters, and found an local news article debunking it: http://wavy.com/2016/11/08/police-no-reports-of-voter-intimidation-at-chesapeake-precinct/ http://wavy.com/2016/11/08/police-no-reports-of-voter-intimi... And right below that, an IBT page repeating it verbatim without investigation: http://www.ibtimes.com/voter-fraud-2016-where-election-day-reports-intimidation-are-coming-2443527 http://www.ibtimes.com/voter-fraud-2016-where-election-day-r... It's not uncommon these days for news organisations to lazily use Twitter as a source in this way. Actually contacting the police force which had supposedly escorted voters would involve actual reporting.
- ryanx435 10y ago
  there is pretty good circumstancial evidence that the Clintons have had several people killed. The most recent is the reporter in Haiti who was investigating the Clinton foundation's alleged child trafficking.