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Bad tax reform that benefits mostly corporations and the 1% reported by foreign news outlets get flagged here, but talk about a spy group or internet regulation
by peterwwillis 9y ago
Bad tax reform that benefits mostly corporations and the 1% reported by foreign news outlets get flagged here, but talk about a spy group or internet regulation and suddenly politics is fair game.
I'm sick of the echo chamber and the pathetic rules of civility strangling human communication, the invisible voting down of opinions people don't like, the moderation filters that carve out a single world view catered to an angel investor's whims.
I guess I'll just read the New York Times. It's annoying and devoid of useful commentary but at least I'll get a complete news feed and not have to watch a sad oppressive ecosystem strangle intelligent debate.
- murph-almighty 9y agoYour last sentence kinda struck home for me. 3 years ago I was able to get news from reddit that was faster and sometimes more reliable than, say, CNN. It now takes hours for a relevant story to siphon to the top because of certain vested interests downvoting it. It's made me miss CNN and NYT. I've started drifting back to conventional news outlets because bad actors destroyed the ones I loved.
- ataturk 9y agoNY Times is Carlos Slim(e). There is no news outlet that is objective anymore--none. Maybe there never was. "News" is just propaganda for whoever owns them now.
- strictnein 9y agoHN isn't a generic news site. Nor is it a site for the discussion of all social topics. Many people are here because of that, but it appears that you want something different.
- mistercow 9y agoWell, one of those things has to do with technology, and the other one doesn't.