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Grerkol

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  • UK: Rights group urges House of Lords to block Chinese influence and halt foreign media ownership

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  • Bruh when did I say "we need to be like the Chinese party-state because they have freedom of expression and information"?

    I'm trying to say that this Article 19 group has no real principles beyond: "UK government protecting our 'information integrity'=good. Chinese censorship and 'misinformation'=bad." Also it's not even "Chinese media ownership", it's a US firm with a chairman who has ties to China.

    But if you can't follow this beyond "this guy clearly loves China and hates Britain, I need to explain why China is worse", then go off I guess.

  • Try to be normal and not bring up DEI constantly for no reason challenge: impossible

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  • UK: Rights group urges House of Lords to block Chinese influence and halt foreign media ownership

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  • This article is so strange to me. Do these guys want "media plurality" and "freedom of expression and information" or to stop people with links to China from owning UK news outlets? On the one hand they're talking about this ideal of freedom of press and on another it's about how we need to restrict who can control the press. "Information integrity" sounds like justification for censorship to me.

    It's so full of vague, conflicting ideals.

    The idea of laws about transparency of ownership and funding seems reasonable I suppose. It's good media literacy to find out what you can about who owns and funds a news outlet. That's why I looked into who's behind this "Article 19" organisation.

    https://www.article19.org/financials/

    Ah... The UK and US governments, along with the infamous "National Endowment for Democracy". Seems it's bad when China tries to control the narrative, but not the UK or US.

    As for whether I personally think this US firm that has some links to China should be allowed to buy the Telegraph, I don't care much either way, as long as I can access the media I want to and look up who owns it. It does seem like they're trying to set a precedent for blocking foreign outlets they don't like though.

  • YouTube purges out thousands of channels that run contrary to U.S State Department line on China, Russia, others

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  • "both sides of the Israel-Palestine War"

    Why are they still talking like this? Disgraceful

  • The turntables

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  • I don't think many people are gonna have "hot takes" based on a vaguely titled article behind a paywall.

    Also "scandals" to do with the Chinese military have little to do with someone saying that Taiwanese military badges don't prove anything about the situation in China.

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  • The turntables

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  • What do you even mean here?

    Any decision about censorship is a compromise of some kind between open communication/access to information and the prevention of the spread of content that could be deemed harmful in some way or another.

    Maybe I'm just being thick right now but I'm really not sure who are supposed to be the "children". It seems it could just as easily be the CPC for being uncompromising in their censorship of the internet, fascist trolls who say they should have a right to use slurs and disinformation to incite violence, or liberals who are unwilling to accept that a hardline stance needs to be taken to censor the fascists.

    I'm unsure if this is an enlightened centrist take, you saying the CPC (and similar) do what needs to be done or that we need our freedom and the commenter above is the child. Whatever you mean, your comment (at least to me) comes across a bit rude and unconstructive.

    Ok your comment successfully ragebaited me so tbh I'm probably the child.

    Edit: changed CCP to CPC because that is the technically correct term, even though for some reason most English language outlets use "CCP"

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  • I know. I never said they were the same. I'm trying to say that this comes across like a zionist strawman.

    Complaining about antisemitism right now is just cringe.

    Jews have a right to exist. Israel doesn't.

    There are genuine concerns about people promoting "Israel" to benefit from the extermination of the Palestinian people, and that's what this looks like a strawman of, to me.

    And to be clear, I don't think "the Jews" are behind this. It's largely rich and powerful people from the US (and UK and other countries), who often consider themselves to be Christian.

    I'm not trying to defend the crazy guy in the comic. I'm trying to say that we shouldn't be pretending this guy is representative of anyone who matters.

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  • Well sure... but this is a political comic that's basically saying "these crazy people hate the Jews and blame them for everything".

    Obviously you can post whatever you want and there surely are crazy people like this, but to me this comes across as though it could be trying to discredit certain criticisms and seems in bad taste right now. It doesn't really matter what you say you personally believe.

    But if you find this funny then sure. I'm not trying to have your post removed or anything.

  • AOC goes full mask off and clarifies she supports giving free weapons to Israel

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  • Nobody should be defending Israel right now.

    Someone might go further than that but we're not allowed to say anything positive about groups like Palestine Action or anyone trying to protect Palestinians.

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  • This is a bad post to make when Israel is currently committing a genocide and powerful people are clearly trying to distort the truth about it.

    Of course "the Jews" aren't behind the trees being fake or whatever, and antisemitism is bad... but this reeks of zionist pro-Israel strawman shit.

  • Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket

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  • Delta accomplishes this pricing through a partnership with Fetcherr, a six-year-old Israeli company that also counts Azul, WestJet, Virgin Atlantic, and VivaAerobus as clients. And it has its sights set beyond flying. “Once we will be established in the airline industry, we will move to hospitality, car rentals, cruises, whatever,” cofounder Robby Nissan said at a travel conference in 2022.

    So soon even more AI will decide you have to pay more, and that extra money will be going to Israel, no doubt helping to fund their genocide

  • ‘Hamas Is To Blame For the Suffering in Gaza’

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  • It's utterly disgusting that someone would seriously respond to being told that a genocide is being committed with "define genocide".

    Completely innocent Palestinians are being mercilessly slaughtered by colonisers who clearly want to wipe them out and take all their land.

    Nobody gives a shit if you can "own" someone in a debate because they haven't memorised exact legal definitions and/or you want to actually argue that in some way it's not "technically" a genocide.

    Zionists are constantly trying to make things more complicated than they have to be, as if some minute detail can justify severe crimes against humanity.

    This isn't a debate. This isn't academia. This is a genocide. They're scared of people knowing the truth so they have to act as though nobody really understands the "nuance" of killing thousands of children.

  • why dont the dems ever try and impeach the vice president

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  • But if JD Vance got impeached, nobody would be posting funny pictures of his silly baby face, and that would be really sad.

  • Mainstream media quoting the anarchist library.

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  • The term "propaganda" is quite nebulous. Anything with a political message can basically be described as propaganda... and yeah, I don't think trying to promote an idea in a catchy, snappy way is necessarily bad.

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  • Ooo yeah trickle down on me Margaret

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  • Either that or your therapist is gonna stab you because they don't understand you

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  • Thanks for your 2893rd comment on Lemmy to date.

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  • "I chatgpt'd some things"

    Nobody wants to read the wall of slop you copy-pasted from an LLM