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WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I’m just curious how you’d define politics.

Would this filter just remove news/memes about political candidates & elections?

Would this filter remove news/memes about all government officials?

Would this filter remove anything that could considered political, including news about things like climate change? news about worker strikes? news about product boycotts? news about drag show protests? news in general?

Would this filter remove anything that ‘becomes’ political, like Barbie/Oppenheimer, Disney, Rage Against the Machine, Dixie Chicks, Bud Light? Or would it go further and consider all media an expression of a political viewpoint and ban all discussion of entertainment media?

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xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think filtering out everything that doesn’t make sense outside the USA would be sufficient for me.

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- JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And things that don’t make sense inside the USA, like F1 racing and soccer.
  
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kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My ideal feature would scan American news for whatever ragebait they’re pushing for the week, and just block that.

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- WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This idea does seem more doable
  
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Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I genuinely appreciate how you put scare quotes on “becomes” in “becomes political”, because it’s legitimately baffling how some people think that Rage Against the Machine “wasn’t political” before. Like, they literally donated their profits to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and interviewed Subcomandante Marcos for one of their video releases! You can hardly get more political!

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