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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by swader999 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:19PM (#27309802)
"Recognized as a legitimate source of information" So default censor all non legitimate sources? Who gets to decide what is legitimate?

I don't care for the comments on that site but many times they've had scoops and been proven correct after time has passed.

Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by seattle_spring on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:33PM (#27310414)
> So default censor all non legitimate sources

No? Censor sources that have proven time and time again to provide verifiably false information. Zerohedge and Infowars specifically fit into that bucket and it's completely reasonable to shine a light on their lack of trustworthiness.

A lot of folks are saying, "let the people decide what is false!" Well, here's the thing: People are really mind-numbingly stupid. Spend some time using a roundabout in the USA and you'll learn real fast that the average person can't be trusted to be left to their own devices.

Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by swader999 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:43PM (#27311185)
To quote Tolstoy: "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by narrator on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:30PM (#27311436)
The New York Times had two years of bad RussiaGate scoops and everyone still trusts them.
Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by narrator on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:20PM (#27321209)
Speaking of The New York Times, a NYT reporter tweeted that it was racist to even discuss the lab leak theory:

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/new-york-times-covid-repo...