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neilv | karma 22736 | avg karma 4.25 · 2022-12-05 05:27:12

In this outlet, the story might as well be like the steady stream of now-familiar US political party base-rousing:

Subtext: "Those darned anti-piracy things are so unreasonable! This justifies pirating! Let's pirate harder! Don't forget to use our affiliate codes to sign up for a piracy-friendly VPN scam!"

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orwin | karma 2813 | avg karma 0.93 · 2022-12-05 06:50:04

So your argument is that if a valid story is written on a biased news source, we ought to ignore it?

neilv | karma 22736 | avg karma 4.25 · 2022-12-05 06:59:19

I said:

> can we get a more objective source?

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Karunamon | karma 16796 | avg karma 2.2 · 2022-12-05 07:58:36

So the answer to the prior question is "yes".

Instead of this tiresome "pick a source that is acceptable to my arbitrary and unstated requirements" game, why not point out something specific in the article that you feel is incorrect? This has the additional benefit of allowing the discussion to continue rather than bringing it to a screeching halt.

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noirscape | karma 2220 | avg karma 4.45 · 2022-12-05 08:01:32

You're letting your familiarity with the (closed for over a year by now) TorrentFreak comment section dictate your opinion on the sites reporting as a whole.

That comment section was indeed a shithole of pirates looking for moral justification to be pirates whilst using any excuse to do so. TFs reporting has never really matched up with this comment section (and it's possible to read through the lines of their closure message and realize it got closed specifically because of what an utter toxic mess their comment section became).

Whilst it is somewhat slanted, that is moreso in terms of what they choose to cover rather than any factual inaccuracies. In that regard they're no more slanted than other blogs on a similar matter (ie. Techdirt).

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