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The guy is obviously being facetious bringing up Daily Stormer, but I agree that it’s odd (or maybe not so much) that Mozilla only went with leftist outlets.

by kabwj 7y ago

krapp 7y ago
I don't see anything in the linked article showing that Mozilla only went with leftist outlets, much less an intention on their part to exclude non-leftist content as a matter of policy. What I do see here is an assumption of a political agenda based on what may not even be an exhaustive list of Scroll's list of publisher sites, likely based on a single graphic on their frontpage which contains 12 logos, of which four companies were mentioned here. Their about page[0] shows 24. Are all of these "leftist" outlets? Is their only relevant commonality left-wing political ideology? Show me some evidence of non-crazy non-leftist publishers being rejected by this partnership due to their ideology and I'll agree it's odd. Until then it just looks like confirmation bias to me. [0]https://scroll.com/about https://scroll.com/about
- kabwj 7y ago
  I’ve looked at the list and literally all of them are leftist outlets. (Half of them belong to the Gizmodo family.) They are also all US-based. There’s a clear bias and, honestly, trying to pretend it’s not there is doing a disservice. Whether that’s because Scroll is not interested in serving right-wing customers or because right-wing outlets are not interested in participating in Scroll, that’s going to remain a mystery I guess.
  - krapp 7y ago
    People believe that all forms of media, including all social media, are controlled by a leftist agenda now. What does "literally leftist" even mean in this context? How is Fatherly[0] a "literally leftist outlet?" The fact that so many of them are Gizmodo sites only tells me that Gizmodo joined the platform and all of the others came as a package deal. That's not furthering an agenda, it's good business, given Gizmodo's popularity. [0]https://www.fatherly.com/ https://www.fatherly.com/
    - kabwj 7y ago
      https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/politics/ https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/politics/ And the Gizmodo deal is the most blatant one—there’s a blog about feminism, another about black power... Anyway conversation over from me; there’s no way we could ever agree. :-)

The guy is obviously being facetious bringing up Daily Stormer, but I agree that it’s odd (or maybe not so much) that Mozilla only went with leftist outlets.

by kabwj 7y ago

The guy is obviously being facetious bringing up Daily Stormer, but I agree that it’s odd (or maybe not so much) that Mozilla only went with leftist outlets.

krapp 7y ago

I don't see anything in the linked article showing that Mozilla only went with leftist outlets, much less an intention on their part to exclude non-leftist content as a matter of policy. What I do see here is an assumption of a political agenda based on what may not even be an exhaustive list of Scroll's list of publisher sites, likely based on a single graphic on their frontpage which contains 12 logos, of which four companies were mentioned here. Their about page[0] shows 24. Are all of these "leftist" outlets? Is their only relevant commonality left-wing political ideology? Show me some evidence of non-crazy non-leftist publishers being rejected by this partnership due to their ideology and I'll agree it's odd. Until then it just looks like confirmation bias to me. [0]https://scroll.com/about https://scroll.com/about

kabwj 7y ago
I’ve looked at the list and literally all of them are leftist outlets. (Half of them belong to the Gizmodo family.) They are also all US-based. There’s a clear bias and, honestly, trying to pretend it’s not there is doing a disservice. Whether that’s because Scroll is not interested in serving right-wing customers or because right-wing outlets are not interested in participating in Scroll, that’s going to remain a mystery I guess.
- krapp 7y ago
  People believe that all forms of media, including all social media, are controlled by a leftist agenda now. What does "literally leftist" even mean in this context? How is Fatherly[0] a "literally leftist outlet?" The fact that so many of them are Gizmodo sites only tells me that Gizmodo joined the platform and all of the others came as a package deal. That's not furthering an agenda, it's good business, given Gizmodo's popularity. [0]https://www.fatherly.com/ https://www.fatherly.com/
  - kabwj 7y ago
    https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/politics/ https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/politics/ And the Gizmodo deal is the most blatant one—there’s a blog about feminism, another about black power... Anyway conversation over from me; there’s no way we could ever agree. :-)