Get the Daily Mail reclassified as a fake news website

adolf hamster · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:08

Vonhelmet said:
Dammit!

quote's out there now, no hiding your shame

Diddums · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:12

Vonhelmet said:
I did actually once buy a copy of the mail. We’d just got a new cat and I needed something to go on the floor round the litter box. It was the obvious choice.

I used to buy them for the Lego sets. #shameless

Raz · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:13

LabR@t said:
Typical lefttard, ban, rubbish anything they don't agree with.

All news sources have a bias, you either choose to agree or disagree, it's what grown ups do.

you're right, but too many "grown ups" take information from sources which in most cases play to their own biases then agree or disagree based on that.

A person who believes all Muslims in the UK want to take over, implement Sharia law and build Mosques on every street corner isn't generally going to pick up a copy of the Guardian and think "oh, actually that might not be the case".

Most people unfortunately don't really look for unbiased information.

There's also a massive difference between fake news and biased news...

LabR@t · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:24

Raz said:
you're right, but too many "grown ups" take information from sources which in most cases play to their own biases then agree or disagree based on that.

A person who believes all Muslims in the UK want to take over, implement Sharia law and build Mosques on every street corner isn't generally going to pick up a copy of the Guardian and think "oh, actually that might not be the case".

Most people unfortunately don't really look for unbiased information.

There's also a massive difference between fake news and biased news...

Totally agree, that's why unless something directly effects my life I am not interested.

What's the point in news, it's all negative.

LabR@t · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:24

Losing interest in caring about pointless issues tbh

Tunney · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:25

It’s alreay banned as a source on Wikipedia. Is further action really needed?

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:35

Tunney said:
It’s alreay banned as a source on Wikipedia. Is further action really needed?

I think the latest push is to get Facebook to flag it as fake news.

LabR@t · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:53

Vonhelmet said:
I think the latest push is to get Facebook to flag it as fake news.

Lol fb is the epicenter of everything fake, the worst thng to happen to society in years.

Overlag · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:59

Vonhelmet said:
I’ll not defend the independent as it’s turned into rubbish since going online, but the guardian is decidedly more credible than the Mail, even taking into account its obvious left wing bias.

the point though its the OP wants to ban right wing media, i think left wing media should be banned too.

LabR@t · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:01

Overlag said:
the point though its the OP wants to ban right wing media, i think left wing media should be banned too.

Left is far more insidious.

Participant · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:06

robfosters said:
Why don’t you just go the whole hog and ask for every right wing newspaper to be banned. That’s basically why people want it banned. Freedom of speech doesn’t exist to the left unless you are left wing.

Which is ironic, because fascism is a left wing phenomenon.

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:10

Overlag said:
the point though its the OP wants to ban right wing media, i think left wing media should be banned too.

No, he wants the mail classified as fake news. Not all left wing media, and not banned. Do keep up.

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:11

Participant said:
Which is ironic, because fascism is a left wing phenomenon.

Fascism is not an economic position.

Participant · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:25

Vonhelmet said:
Fascism is not an economic position.

Pigs are not green.

Raz · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:26

LabR@t said:
Totally agree, that's why unless something directly effects my life I am not interested.

What's the point in news, it's all negative.

Makes sense. The only truth I know comes from my senses and interactions with others, and even then sometimes I fall into the trap of unconscious bias.

Vonhelmet · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:29

Participant said:
Pigs are not green.

So you agree that fascism has nothing to do with left and right wing positions?

Irish_Tom · 15 Dec 2017 at 21:48

Participant said:
Which is ironic, because fascism is a left wing phenomenon.

Don’t start that rubbish again. Before you know it, h4m0ny will be along to tell us the Nazis were all left wing as well.

wordy · 15 Dec 2017 at 22:12

TallPaul1878 said:
I can't remember ever actually buying a paper at any point in my life.

I used to buy the Daily & Sunday Sport all the time when I was about 18.

Angilion · 15 Dec 2017 at 22:29

Raz said:
you're right, but too many "grown ups" take information from sources which in most cases play to their own biases then agree or disagree based on that.
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And some of them seek to suppress every other source, hence this thread promoting a petition to do that.

Angilion · 15 Dec 2017 at 22:32

Irish_Tom said:
Don’t start that rubbish again. Before you know it, h4m0ny will be along to tell us the Nazis were all left wing as well.

Not all of them, no. But a lot of them were. Quite a few nazis were communists, according to the nazi's own records.

The left/right split is too simple to be realistic.