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  • This is a good question but I would just like to point out that 15 years ago nobody would have predicted that the questions we were asking and answering on stackoverflow would be used to train models (and that open source would have it's license violated so brazenly) and that if you tried to delete your contributions because you didn't want them to be used to train models you would get banned from the site, so even though adding a license to your comments might be meaningless, it might also be a powerful tool down the line. You never know how it'll go.

  • We can do it. We can make him dumber than he was. Dumber, weaker, slower.

  • Lol yea, but is Dave M. Van Zandt really a Zionist? I hadn't heard that.

    My favorite part of their Wikipedia page is

    Fact checks are carried out by independent reviewers who are associated with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and follow the International Fact-Checking Network Fact-checkers’ Code of Principles, which was developed by the Poynter Institute.

    ...

    Writers at the Poynter Institute, which develops PolitiFact,[24] have stated that "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific."

  • they can promote certain perspectives while downplaying others

    Exactly, and they have the reach to be very effective at controlling the narrative.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2022/10/palestinian-photog-says-nyt-fired-him-for-expressing-support-for-resistance/

    “What is taking place is a systematic effort to distort the image of Palestinian journalists as being incapable of trustworthiness and integrity, simply because we cover the human rights violations that the Palestinian people undergo on a daily basis at hands of the Israeli army,” Salem wrote today on Facebook and Twitter, in a thread that has been widely retweeted, 5000 times this morning.

    The case stands in stark contrast to the three Jewish reporters, Ethan Bronner, Isabel Kershner, and David Brooks, who carried on writing about the issue for the New York Times even when their children were enlisted in the Israeli Defense Forces.

    The Israel lobby is massively invested in propaganda, like NGO monitor and the above linked "organization Honest Reporting, which exists to attack the Palestinian narrative in the west". Not to mention ads on google, youtube, controlling the narrative on facebook, google again, twitter.... the list goes on. And yeah, there's app for that.

  • I know they were funded in part by Israel to destroy Palestinian unity and give Israel an excuse to kill more Palestinians and take their land, but was Hamas really created by Israel?

  • Did you read that page yet?

    Israelis domestically and abroad have primarily called for the return of hostages held by Hamas.

    Some of the protests were

    • Protest against humanitarian aid
    • Pro-war protests

    Nothing remotely about peace or anti-genocide, or even to protest against what Israel is doing in Gaza, in fact:

    On 9 November, Israeli police arrested former MK Mohammad Barakeh in Nazareth for attempting to organize an anti-war protest.[53]

    The reason you have not seen "Israelis who have the courage to protest against what Israel is doing in Gaza" in the news is that it's not happening.

    Jews, on the other hand, have been getting locked up in droves (and since the beginning of the latest offensive) protesting Israel's actions.

  • Did you read that page? Some of the protests were

    • Protest against humanitarian aid
    • Pro-war protests

    The rest were to get the hostages back. Nothing remotely about peace or anti-genocide.

  • allowing the scraping and evading X's own anti-scraping technology.

    I wonder why evading anti-scraping technology is not treated like bypassing DRM or the DMCAs anti-circumvention rules.

  • Not only do they make Hamas look like the good guys, Israel has put the world into a position where Iran, a nation run by theocratic despots who brutalize women and sponsor terror, is the calmer actor in international missle attacks!

  • Zionists are using Jews as human shields. Actual Judeophobic incidents have increased in the past half year solely because of Israel's actions, and I realized this when I saw a headline about a man that raped a Jewish woman "to avenge Palestine". Also the agent provocateurs that the Israel lobby has been sending to college campuses create distrust among student groups, especially toward Jewish members. It's a very sick act. Some groups that counter that negative force, though, are If Not Now and Jewish Voices for Peace.

    Btw, it's refreshing to read some sane, reality-based takes, so thank you guys for that.

  • Lol yea, but do you see the contradiction between

    In those 75 years, many Israeli people were born on this land, and it really is their home.

    and a state being established through the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Israel spends a lot of money on PR to whitewash that.

  • Apparently if you think the murder of a boy from hundreds of yards away is wrong, you're "pro-Hamas". They're really working hard to make Hamas look like the good guys.

  • It's kind of eerie how none of the protester's demands address the genocide of Palestinians.

  • So you're saying that Israel has no right to exist?

  • "Israel has not shared complete information to verify whether U.S. defense articles covered under NSM-20 were specifically used in actions that have been alleged as violations of IHL or IHRL in Gaza, or in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the period of the report," it said.

    Because of that, the administration said it still finds credible Israel's assurances that it is using U.S. weapons in accordance with international law.

    The perpetrator didn't tell us what happened so we find their written assurance of innocence still valid.