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Re:Amnesty International to halt India operations by kbenson on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:02PM (#24629455)
Wow, so I'm not sure if it's because it's aimed at an audience slightly different than me, so the triggers fall flat, or if it's just really clumsily done, but I've honestly never seen something that is so obviously a hit piece and reaching for anything it can find.

E.g. Amnesty is bad because their higher ups are mean people. Amnesty is bad because they said stuff in twitter that we want to interpret as attacking cows. Amnesty is bad because they work with a Muslim in guantanamo bay about prisoner rights that says stuff about middle east fighters.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not taking a stance on whether AI is in the right or wrong, or the Indian government is right or wrong, since I don't really know, but this piece is obviously designed to make AI look bad through techniques that aren't useful, such as guilt through association (because it's much easier to color the associate when people are less familiar with them), providing little context but plenty of assumptions about intent for short bits of speech, etc.

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Re:Amnesty International to halt India operations by kbenson on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:34PM (#24630645)
Portraying those that disagree with your methods as enemies and part of the opposition is a common way to discredit them and discount their objections. Being common doesn't mean it's excusable.

That you accept any tactic against an organization you disagree with, and discount any criticism of those tactics and color the people doing so as unable to look at the situation rationally only exposes you yourself to the same criticism.

I am not Indian. I do not know a lot of the details about Amnesty International and India. I can also easily spot many instances in the linked article where they are using techniques often used to present half-truths and sway opinion through purposeful misinterpretation and misrepresentation. I don't need to know more about the overall situation because I am not commenting on the overall situation, I'm noting what I see as blatant attempts to sway opinion not through fact and rational discourse, but propaganda. That's worth calling out whenever encountered, regardless of whether you agree with the goals of the people in question or not.

Re:Amnesty International to halt India operations by adityasaky on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:48AM (#24629258)
Note: OpIndia is far from an unbiased source.
Re:Amnesty International to halt India operations by nilsocket on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:53AM (#24629329)
They are linking to other articles to make their point, what else do you need?

Okay, then you tell me an unbaised media outlet.