Comment on Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

• shadysus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  al jazeera is a wholy qatari owned propoganda mouthpiece for ismalic jihadis

  … what?

  Al Jazeera is Qatari, and so I don’t go to them for content about Qatar in case there’s a bias. However it’s a pretty large organization and they do decent investigative work on stuff happening in South America, Africa, & Asia. New organizations pick topics they think the readers want to see, and so in Canada (and likely the US) there’s often little to no coverage on stuff in these parts of the world. Al Jazeera puts out decent investigative pieces and documentaries about these places.

  TLDR: Al Jazeera isn’t unbiased, and I avoid them on certain topics. However I DO go to them for other stuff.

  This article specifically sounds like a bad thing:

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• downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  al jazeera is a wholy qatari owned propoganda mouthpiece for ismalic jihadis

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  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While that is true, silencing journalists sets a very bad precedent

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    • downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I'd want Der Sturmer and the KKK weekly to be deplatformed too, it is not journalism, it's racist propaganda, Al Jazeera is a Qatari owned mouthpiece for Islamic Jihadis

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      • CatWhoMustNotBeNamed@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Let the removeds bring their ideas into the light, so we know who they are and what they think.

        Suppression is just a bad idea, and your naivete is terrifying.

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      • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The problem with deplatforming people is eventually your group is going to be the out group, and it’s going to get deplatformed. Either we have freedom of expression for everybody or for nobody.

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If we deplatform whole communities, they will meet in the dark and we have no way to see who is a shady mf

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If that’s such a problem, why’d they wait until this particular piece to deplatform and even then only the presenter’s profile?

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He is a Nazi.

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