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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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Context:

The article in question was well sourced, factually accurate, and written by a well-renowned author and journalist whose work appears elsewhere too, regardless of which outlet published it.

Nonetheless, Jordan Lund is once again blindly trusting a pro-zionist conservative outlet masquerading as a bias and fact checker that nothing from anywhere that criticizes the fascist apartheid regime can be reliable 🤦

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the mod who shielded UniversalMonk for months and only banned them once like 1000 people loudly harped on it for weeks. Fuck that guy

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

We should really start those dashboards of power tripping per mod

As usual

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I'm all for the increased federation of news from .world and .ml to limit the censorship the mod teams enable when it doesn't paint America or Russia as the perfect golden cows.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I lack any context but if the rule is against questionable sources and a mod is able to document that the source is questionable then surely there other news outlets are reporting on that too that you can use. Unless there’s a big conspiracy against that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No conspiracy required. The Celtic fans' antifascist and pro-Palestinian position is not news, so I see no reason to expect non-left outlets to report an equivalent opinion piece. In fact, this second image was reported in news 9 years ago^[1]^.

That said, Manufacturing Consent is an excellent introduction to why mass media bias has emerged.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://www.mintpressnews.com/love-from-glasgow-to-gaza-why-celtic-fc-fans-support-palestine/289198/

I was going to say that it's probably just an unsourced opinion-analysis piece, but no it's pretty thorough, even though it is relatively light news (and not an investigation despite the tag). The site doesn't seem unreliable to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Avoiding non-newsworthy content might be a part of intention behind the rule but whether that makes sense depends on how you want to run a community. I try to make an effort to not assume ill intent (not always successful) and this just looks like a mod is using external list not to be critiqued for arbitrary choices and that only works if no exceptions are made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For [email protected] if you look at the rule, it's that opinion based articles "MAY" be removed, they aren't just automatically removed because they're opinion.

As a rule, I don't have a beef with opinion articles as long as they are informative and fact based. If they go off the rails into "Well, Ukraine shouldn't have antagonized Russia!" or some such, I'll remove it for misinfornation, not because it's opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

His shameless bias has been throughly exposed ... Block the politics and news communities on world folks...

Deny the parasite engagement, let him create a Zionist echo chamber lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

The community rules cleary states that opinion pieces and unreliable sources are subject to removal. You posted the epitome of an unreliable source. This is just enforcing the rules.

YDI.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

PTB, not a shocker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

We already know legacy media is heavily biased because it's owned by the same handful of businesses. And I understand questionable sources such as Breitbart being removed. Yet here we are.

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