Stop with the cancel culture. Disinformation according to who? You? The left? Just because you do not agree with it, does not mean it needs to be removed. It’s been on there for forever.
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Newsmax among others spreads what is objectively disinformation based on repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories. That’s their target audience. Other media fight for this same target audience because there’s money to be made.
I take a back seat to no one on the matter of free-speech and freedom of the press. There’s no direct harm posed to me by the flat-earthers and anti-vaxers. You’re free to label the other side as conservative or liberal or godless or stupid. But when you make a business out of calling free elections, our laws and the courts part of a conspiracy justifying a violent response, I draw the line.
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Reality.
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This, the above, lays bare the absurdity of trying to censor content, particularly political content.
No one believes their own political opinions are just opinions… we all see our own opinions as unassailable reality. Like this guy. It’s perfectly normal.
He, like everyone, doesn’t have a perspective, he instead knows facts, and because he cares so much about the world, he wants them imposed everywhere with no place left out, including what would normally be a place of refuge such as your personal plex server.
This is precisely why we have meta-principles like freedom of speech, freedom of press, academic freedom etc. This has been a more than adequate demonstration of exactly why.
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It’s not about opinions. It’s about straight up lying about verifiable facts. Don’t conflate those two and legitimise lying under the banner of “freedom of speech”.
2+2=5 is not an opinion.
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@pandas Your entire post is everything I’ve been trying to find the words for.
Newsmax = A barrel full of lies is an opinion.
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Daniel Moynihan: “You’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.”
Facts and logic comprise reasoning. Opinions that lacks those are, at best, a bias that when fed a steady diet of lies becomes a prejudice.
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Freedom of speech is under attack. Democrats plan on unifying and healing the country by eradicating all dissenting opinions from their own.
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And I thought this was a forum about a media server.
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I cannot (and will not) comment on behalf of Plex why or why not certain channels are listed in the news section.
I will however give a strong reminder of our forum guidelines to everybody in this thread – as well as to everybody who might feel compelled to throw this further off:
https://forums.plex.tv/guidelines#heading---civil
The OP’s point has been taken. It’ll be finally up to Plex if they take any action or not.
Thank you!
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I agree that this issue is pretty well talked through. I think as far as conduct goes the discussion was not only acceptable but is an example of how to discuss a controversial forum topic properly and at arms length… by all parties. I also believe that it was all completely pertinent and 100% on-topic.
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A lot of folks are piling on OP here but I think they actually do have a point. I always check out new Plex features, and jumped into the News section as soon as it showed up, but was immediately turned off of it because every source I could find was essentially far-right propaganda.
I don’t assume Plex is pushing an agenda, but I think it could have opened itself up to abuse by virtue of the fact it is serving media that presents as news and is available without licensing fees, and at present a majority of the content that fits that description is designed to manipulate an audience to a specific end.
I haven’t checked out News in Plex recently to see if it has improved, but this might be something an admin should examine.
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While we are at it can we also get CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc also removed. All of them spread disinformation. It just depends on what side you are on from a perspective view.
We should all be happy with a central government controlled news source.
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as warned above…
