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user-inactivated  ·  4043 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: /r/politics just banned dozens of news domains, please don't censor here hubski admins!

The banned like every conservative blog site out there. This basically turns the already liberal circle jerk called /r/politics into an echo chamber where no dissenting views are allowed. At least before you could get some discussion before all the left wing downvotes drowned any post critical of the administration.





user-inactivated  ·  4043 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can't speak for that because I don't read political blogs and thus don't know their various biases, but I can say that motherjones is one of the most liberal websites on the internet. See also salon. Both are banned. I'll repeat what I said below:

    /r/Politics is a subreddit for current U.S. political news and information only.

Blogs, left or right, don't fit into this. A quick scan of their allowed domains shows that they're mostly newspaper websites, which will potentially have their own biases, but are at least sources of news. It's a news subreddit now.

This discussion continues to be unilaterally irrelevant to hubski.

user-inactivated  ·  4043 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is already a sub called /r/news. Politics are pretty much defined as opinion, so blocking differing viewpoints seems extremely biased.

user-inactivated  ·  4043 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It was in reaction to the joke that r/politics had become, from what I can tell.