/r/news mods selectively deciding what is "primarily politics." News about US ambassador to Netherlands is not "primarily politics." News about DACA? Apparently so political that it gets you banned.

165    13 Jan 2018 21:33 by u/NorseGodLoki0411

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10 u/NorseGodLoki0411 [OP] 13 Jan 2018 21:35
The image is after they told me that breitbart.com is on their mysterious list of domains that aren't allowed. I asked them how a subreddit devoted to news could ban a site devoted to news. What followed is the conversation you see in the image there. The current top post on /r/news is about the ambassador to the Netherlands. But it pushes their narrative so I guess that isn't too political. Seems like their sidebar could use a little more honesty. Maybe something like: Posts that are primarily political will be removed, unless they push the mods' narrative in which case that's totally allowed.
4 u/[deleted] † 13 Jan 2018 22:05
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10 u/NorseGodLoki0411 [OP] 13 Jan 2018 22:18
So you're a fan of other people deciding that for you? Don't you want to decide for yourself that Breitbart.com is right wing propaganda? Or would you rather a team of people filter what you get to see first so you only see what they think is news? Edit: to be clear, I'm just as against them blocking the so call left wing propaganda as well. I'm just as mad about it. It's not a left or right argument. It's censorship, plain and simple, that I'm against.
2 u/[deleted] † 13 Jan 2018 22:31
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8 u/mostnormal 13 Jan 2018 22:39
Out of curiosity, do you prefer the flavor of fear that CNN or WaPo peddles?
9 u/mark-five 13 Jan 2018 23:36
***MY*** chosen source of propaganda is better than ***YOUR*** chosen source of propaganda so I'm happy to censor yours as long as mine is left alone.
7 u/kellllykellz 14 Jan 2018 01:56
That's pretty bad you'd admit to reading propaganda.
4 u/mark-five 14 Jan 2018 02:12
It's worse than that, it was made legal by both US parties specifically because they want to lie to us and don't care what you read it from.
1 u/FreeSpeechWarrior 14 Jan 2018 01:26
I think you should absolutely have the option to filter out breitbart from your own view. That would be a far preferable alternative to having the moderators force the decision on everyone.
2 u/MAGAforjustice 14 Jan 2018 02:06
MSN, CNBC, CNN, And literally every single thing you watch IS propaganda by definition. Lol welcome to America kid. We live in a propaganda State.
1 u/reddit_Breauxstorm 19 Jan 2018 18:31
And unironically not mentioning Fox News in the same breath as "propaganda". They are all entertainment channels, masquerading as news.
3 u/CedTruz 14 Jan 2018 18:41
999 days is “temporary”.
2 u/HappySadChap 15 Jan 2018 02:29
I've decided that I'm unsubscribing from /r/news and/r/worldnews. It's now proven unreliable. Also, eventually many will unsubscribe and they will have less impact with their shilling.
1 u/twayne-by-the-ocean 13 Mar 2018 22:21
Kinda surprising that there aren’t more conservative news channels. Fox is the largest news channel in the USA simply because the folks who run fox have the chutzpah to put themselves out there and serve a news community that has long been frowned upon by leftists. IOW there’s a conservative news gold mine out there and the leftists just play whack a mole against it. If breitbart made a news channel, it’s very possible that it would succeed and make a lot of money, although sjw advertisers would probably avoid it.