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And in this specific case, it feels more like quality control of state-sponsored spam. You can still find these sites—they come up first if you look for them d
by coffeefirst 5y ago
And in this specific case, it feels more like quality control of state-sponsored spam.
You can still find these sites—they come up first if you look for them directly, they're just treated as the low quality information than they are.
- mattwilsonn888 5y agoAnd why should anyone believe that State sponsored spam doesn't come from all angles? If I'm going to receive propaganda, I at least would like consistent sampling of it. And who cares about any of that - you have admonished an information search provider to determine what information it serves you based on subjective, undisclosed criteria of which there is good reason to believe is ideologically motivated.
- avgcorrection 5y agoSome people consume information from outlets like Al Jazeera because they would like something which might be a little more distanced from the West than things like Anglo outlets.
- coffeefirst 5y agoRight, but Al Jazeera is more like the BBC than it is like RT. I don't see anyone making a quality-based argument to downrank it, and I would disagree with them if they did.
- mardifoufs 5y agoAljazeera is literally the Qatari state media. That means they are the media outlet of a slave state controlled by an absolute monarchy . Tell anyone in the Arabic world that aljazeera is neutral or BBC like and you will get laughed at. Even RT is probably not on as short of an editorial leash than al jazeera. Your comment is actually an amazing example of why we should absolutely avoid media censorship (like the EU is doing right now); it seems like the people who are usually the most vocally pushing for it are also, not coincidentally, those who are also the most likely to be completely oblivious to propaganda even when it's right in front of them. Yet also think that they are impervious to it.
- soundnote 5y agoAlso worth noting that Al Jazeera's coverage in English and Arabic are obviously different.
- empthought 5y agoThe BBC is literally the UK state media.
- mardifoufs 5y agoYou ignored the "slave state with an absolute monarchy" part I think. Not like they are even comparable, unless you are saying the BBC journalists could justifiably be fearing for their lives if they criticize the UK government? All state media aren't created equal, and aren't equally independant. Otherwise the BBC, aljazeera and RT would be all equal since they are all state media after all.
- soundnote 5y agoNot the government, and they won't lose their lives for it, but they do live in a country that records "non-crime hate incidents" and shows them to people requesting your criminal record.
- hereforphone 5y agoHave you remembered to renew your BBC license this year?
- mardifoufs 5y agoI'm not British but I still think a license based financing is still probably better than financing from the ruling family of a slave petrostate.
- ashwagary 5y agoYou stated that you aren't British. You should probably ask some Brits what they think about the BBC and understand their criticisms. You may be surprised by the response. They generally do not consider it unbiased at all and many would call it false propaganda, especially if they are Irish or Scottish.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoCool, you can have a checkbox for 'Protect me from being stupid' and click it on each of your searches. This allows you to be protected from "state-sponsored spam" without imposing your intellectual shortcomings on everyone else.