Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by DuskStar on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:43AM
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Also as personal policy, when someone asserts something, is asked for evidence, and then comes back with "it's really well known and I'm not going to provide evidence for it", I assume that means they looked for evidence and couldn't find any. Lots of things are commonly known in a subgroup despite having no primary sources.
That may not be the case here, but it's a better policy than taking things on faith in my opinion.
Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by duxup on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:45AM
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I understand and respect that.
Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by dangerface on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:08PM
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If you can't or wont back up your claim then its unsubstantiated not fact.
> Gamergate is really a topic that folks who want to belive are going to belive, and no amount of linking is going to change anyone's mind.
Another opinion I don't share. I would rather give people the opportunity to prove me wrong so that I can have the benefit of changing my mind and being right.
I hope you enjoy your beliefs.
Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by duxup on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:11PM
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I can say the sky is blue and not link to anything that says so... it's still a fact.
I can understand someone who doesn't know not believing me, that's understandable and I respect that.
Gamergate is really a topic that folks who want to belive are going to belive, and no amount of linking is going to change anyone's mind. You literally had folks posting their tweets from their account(s) and then if things went bad that same user would claim that same twitter account was a fake account someone else made to make them look bad.
It's just one of those things that I found not to be worth getting into a googling / link fight about, just as a personal policy.
People can make of that what they will / not belive me, but it not worth linking to it as I find folks will belive what they're going to belive anyway.