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Jesus, this is scathing. I think in an abstract and idealized sense, stuff like Valleywag serves the tech industry by providing the role of watchman and magnif
by jmduke 13y ago
Jesus, this is scathing.
I think in an abstract and idealized sense, stuff like Valleywag serves the tech industry by providing the role of watchman and magnifying glass. But on a post-by-post basis -- and if you think Paul Carr cherry-picked his examples, go on Valleywag, they're pretty much all just awful posts of out-of-context tweets -- it fails that goal tremendously. Just like Gawker itself, there are occasionally very well-put posts and actual newsbreaking -- they broke the Uber financial data a couple weeks back -- but it's hard to hold them in high esteem.
On a semi-related note: incredibly glad that HN auto-kills Valleywag links.
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- zenocon 13y ago> incredibly glad that HN auto-kills Valleywag links. +1
- wklauss 13y ago> On a semi-related note: incredibly glad that HN auto-kills Valleywag links. I think censorship is a terrible idea, even when the censored articles come from places you don't hold in very high esteem.
- zenocon 13y agoI don't consider it censorship. I view it as curated content, which is what I strongly desire. Censorship would mean you or I couldn't get access to valleywag to see what it has to say. That clearly is not the case.