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It's frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their indi
by kafkaesq 10y ago
It's frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their individual content.
No, it's prudent policy, actually -- and what news outlets have pretty much always been doing, all along.
In the old days, you wouldn't have expected the NYT to carry "wire" stories from outlets run by American Nazi Party or Scientology. Same basic principle at play -- just that with the internet, alternative outlets have proliferated, and hence have become harder to keep track of. So if anything, this is a move back to relative normalcy.
The thing to keep in mind is that, at the end of the day, this is not censorship -- it's content curation, operating on the same principles it pretty much always has.