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Whatboutism. They at least make a critical article about it and they're also a simple newspaper website, not the heart of the internet.
by nothis 7y ago
Whatboutism. They at least make a critical article about it and they're also a simple newspaper website, not the heart of the internet.
- jeromegv 7y agoIndeed, one controls the most expensive property on the internet, their influence is way beyond the NYT.
- mattigames 7y agoSo you think if NYT were the heart of the internet they will actually do better? Nonsense; the reasons NYT does it at their scale and Google does it at their scale is the same.
- product50 7y agoCan we just automatically flag posts which mentioned "whataboutism"? THey are utterly ignorant and add nothing to the conversation - like this one.
- dang 7y agoCanned arguments like "whataboutism" break the site guideline against shallow dismissals and also the one about calling names in arguments. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20whataboutism https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20404173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20404173 and marked it off-topic.