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Re:Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s l... by asgard1024 on Friday February 28, 2014 @11:37AM (#7319785)
The problem is that "objectivity" is often used as a way to frame the debate. I think you should listen to some Chomsky. He has a lot of examples of this happening.
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Re:Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s l... by cryoshon on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:17PM (#7320062)
It's just as bad as "seriousness" in terms of moving the window of debate away from unwanted opinions.

Before this latest leak, there was no way that you could suggest that the government was trying to influence conversations online or spying on activist groups-- you'd be decried as a conspiracy theorist aka "not serious" aka "don't listen to this crazy person".

It's disturbing that people don't understand that the frame of discussion dictates the terms of the discussion.

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