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minus-squareTramort@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days ago kind of a bootlicker site Can you elaborate? Whose boots does a tech site even lick?
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoThey don’t really take much of an anti-fascist stance. They’re more “neutral”, which enables the oppressor. They don’t explicitly support trump et al, but they don’t really use their platform for good. They could do a lot more to resist and organize.
minus-squareTramort@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoIsn’t that just old school journalism? A neutral POV with dispassionate reporting of objective facts? That seems like a good thing to me.
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoMaybe. These aren’t normal times and I feel like being neutral in the face of a rising tyranny when you have a big platform is collaboration.
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 days agoI don’t know the answer to your question, and would also like to know, but the implication that a tech site cannot lick authoritarian boots is reading something absurd to me.
Can you elaborate? Whose boots does a tech site even lick?
They don’t really take much of an anti-fascist stance. They’re more “neutral”, which enables the oppressor.
They don’t explicitly support trump et al, but they don’t really use their platform for good. They could do a lot more to resist and organize.
Isn’t that just old school journalism? A neutral POV with dispassionate reporting of objective facts?
That seems like a good thing to me.
Maybe. These aren’t normal times and I feel like being neutral in the face of a rising tyranny when you have a big platform is collaboration.
I don’t know the answer to your question, and would also like to know, but the implication that a tech site cannot lick authoritarian boots is reading something absurd to me.