this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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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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Nope. I'm defending the ARTICLE, which has nothing to do with the more reasonable reasons to distrust Mintpress
You REALLY should. Sometimes great journalists don't have the luxury of being picky about who publishes their work.
The post is about the article and, other than not fawning over Israel, the article doesn't exemplify any of the "offenses" MBFC accuses it of.
Great articles do. If anything, limiting access to the good things an otherwise questionable publisher posts reduces their incentive to publish more of that kind and less clickbaity mis/disinformation.
That's 100% grade A horseshit and against the REASON to have the rule in the first place. It would behoove you to reconsider such an arbitrarily rigid approach.
Take off your scolding cap and stop censoring good articles for arbitrary reasons.
If it had been an opinion piece or breaking news making questionable claims, sure. This is neither of that and well-sourced, though, so would be more akin to dismissing a movie for being an exclusive of a streaming service you don't like.
Shitty sources get removed, full stop.
The author doesn't enter into it.
The quality of the article doesn't enter into it.
We aren't giving traffic to them. Or Fox, or Newsmax or Oann, or, etc. etc. etc.
If you don't like that, feel free to post elsewhere, we have higher standards.
Then remove the BBC.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/over-100-bbc-employees-accuse-broadcaster-of-pro-israel-bias/ar-AA1tncz9
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2024-11-03/ty-article/over-100-bbc-employees-allege-pro-israel-bias-in-gaza-war-coverage/00000192-eeaa-dd31-a9be-ffab67140000
You're oblivious to your own immorality, it's pathetic.
That's a bullshit policy and if you didn't have your "this is how I do it because this is the way I do it" blinders on, you might understand that.
You ARE aware that a lot of publishers, ESPECIALLY ones that don't worry enough about quality and reliability, look at number of impressions when deciding what kind of things to post more of, right?
By keeping people away from something GOOD they post, you're giving Mint a perverse incentive to post less quality journalism about Gaza and more of the kinds that IS bullshit but gets more clicks.
I will.
Fixed it for you.
No, because if we allow one source that's questionable, then the next time this comes up it will be "But, but, you allowed this other bullshit source, why not miiiiiiiine??!???" We aren't opening that door.
We went over this with the legit journalist posting from Substack. Don't care, Substack isn't a source.
Read what other people are telling you in this very thread, YDI.
We all already knew youre a dog shit mod, Jordy, but if you're really too stupid to know how to respond to that then you should definitely be stripped of any responsibility IRL and digitally
It's not a slippery slope when he's a living example of what I'm talking about.
"Buuuut my bullshit source is special! I'm different!"
No it isn't, and no you aren't. I swear, we need an alternate community to PTB - call it WLB - Whiny Little Bitches.
Holy slippery slope fallacy, Batman! 🙄
I have, and most either agree with me or disagree based on the irrelevant point you keep harping on.
Rigidly dogmatic mods such as yourself is the reason why most people from other instances avoid .world when possible.
Use a better source and you won't have this problem. For now?