See title. Axel Springer bought Politico, and it has ties to the CIA, having received $7 million from them, as well tries to force Politico employees into supporting the genocidal apartheid state (Israel).
They also lack journalistic integrity in that they doxed freedom activists, such as those from Palestina.
There’s more in here.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55154354
Get a DNS blocklist for all Axel Springer related media, so you don’t need to bother.
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There is no feature to ban specific domain links in communities. So what you are really asking for is us moderators to get into turf wars with people posting these links.
Believe it or not, but this has been historically an issue in this community and my dm inbox is full of people complaining about us removing links to dubious sources.
I personally think Politico is not quite at the level that requires moderator intervention in blanket style. It is more like some tabloid that requires more scrutiny about the sources used and so far the commenters here did a good job contextualizing such articles.
I personally think Politico is not quite at the level that requires moderator intervention in blanket style
It’s not just about Politico itself. It’s mostly about Axel Springer SE and who profits off of articles being shared and clicked.
I wouldn’t ban them on some 1960s shady dealings. Axel Springer has enough recent dirt to warrant a ban.
My exact thought, we shouldn’t base a ban based on an article from 2003 about cia money from before the 1970s. But aside from that, I am all for banning Axel Springer
How about the bottom up approach instead of the top down one - anyone here who wishes to ban Axel Springer media comments on a post linking a Politici post with a better source and/or upvotes that comment. This is how i was made aware of the company behind Politico and because of that i would not longer post an article by them (although maybe i wouldn’t have anyway). Even a copy/paste comment of what makes the linked article a bad source will help. I believe in the ripple- / oil spill-effect, especially in a place like this.
Can we just use up and downvotes and not use bans for such things.
Without wishing to weigh in on this specific case right now, I think we have to recognise that votes don’t work for all instances of this because way too many people do not read the article. An outlet can publish an incendiary headline and then people that agree with it upvote it without ever noticing that the article doesn’t actually back it up
In this particular case the problem is that most Germans know what it means for a news outlet belonging to Axel Springer, while internationals can’t understand our anger. This is because politico by itself is not a far right outlet like it’s brother BILD. That’s why the up/downvote thing will not work here sadly.
That does not work on lemmy.
Why?
Lemmy scores like this:
Rank = ScaleFactor * log(Max(1, 3 + Score)) / (Time + 2)^GravityWith:
Score = Upvotes - Downvotes + 3And Time is the time since either the posting for “Active” or the last comment for “Hot”. The issue being that the Time score drops of very quickly. As a result it matters much more, what the Time is rather then the votes, as long as it is not horribly bad. Also posts with a lot of downvotes are not treated as bad, as long as they have a lot of upvotes as well.
I think so too, or even linking to other sources for the same news
The way in which I interact with lemmy doesn’t allow for downvoting. Nor would I want it to, to be honest.
Firmly against. I think banning of sources should only even be discussed if talking about sites spreading things like CSAM or (glorifying) depictions of violence like executions. Not because they spread opinion or even propaganda of any kind. I think people especially here are able to discern propaganda for themselves. And it needs to be possible to discuss it. Those outlets already shouldn’t profit off of the couple of clicks they receive because most people will be using an adblocker. And if they don’t, they really should.
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Against. It is one thing to get rid of clear propaganda sites like Breitbart, RT, WSWS, IRNA and possibly PressTV too. But you cant be going around demanding to ban media outlets that do high factual reporting and are generally considered to be centrist because the owner company is conservative.
When Politico starts posting Fox News, Welt or Bild level crap, then we can talk about restrictions.
