Democracy can't function without a free press
  • luciole (he/him)@beehaw.org
    23·
    1 day ago

    Lobbyism plays an enormous role in the USA’s political system. It’s unfortunate the WaPo is unwilling to recognize this fact.

    • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      22 hours ago

      oh, they are aware. They just don’t want to openly acknowledge it because they are pro-lobbyism, and that stance doesn’t play well with their readers.

  • Odys@beehaw.org
    6·
    23 hours ago

    Seems the end of the Washington Post as a serious and reliable news outlet. It will not be the last in the current anti truth wave.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
        39·
        1 day ago

        It refuses to root out Nazis that use the platform in the name of “free speech”, and it’s happy to profit off of their use of the platform. They eventually partly backed down after a sustained campaign, but only agreed to ban a small number of prominent Nazi blogs without changing their general stance.

        And of course, they draw the line on “free speech” at sexual content, including the blogs of sex workers. So the pro-Nazi stance starts looking less like a misguided principle of free speech (which would, frankly, be bad enough on its own) and more a decision to explicitly allow Nazis.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
            15·
            1 day ago

            First: huh? I’ve never come across a Nazi on this platform. The one prominent Nazi instance was defederated very quickly by many other instances, including mine.

            Second: there’s a difference between having Nazis/being slow to remove them, and proudly declaring you won’t remove them. Both are bad, but one is so much worse. Reddit, for example, is the former. Very friendly to Nazi viewpoints, but will at least hurry to remove them once it starts getting media attention.

            But most importantly: Lemmy isn’t one site. It’s a federation. You could at most talk about one instance or another, or a group of instances, which “refuse to root out Nazis”. Saying “Lemmy refuses to root out Nazis” is a sort of nonsense statement, like saying “the Internet refuses to root out Nazis”.