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Veritasium's new video on Jumping Spiders is having its sponsor Better Help on blast in the top comments. Should we hold content creators to account? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Should we stop supporting them with our eyes for taking sponsorships from shady companies?

Edit: I took my first step and unsubscribed from the channel and I will continue to withhold my viewership to those that don’t take better care of the viewers.

Likely doesn’t matter, but I’m on a roll of not giving my money to companies that are immoral so why not do the same with my eyes.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

To begin with, they operate with some very shady definitions of left and right.

Any political coordinates centered on American view of left and right are super skewed and already biased. If you consider Democrats to be "the left", boy something is wrong with that.

And when this happens, what you think is "unbiased news" is really just two flavors of right-wing propaganda, one a bit more extreme than the other.

When capitalists are doing minor successions to be just a bit less evil, this is not "left", and whatever is between that and fascist dictatorship is not the enlightened center.

TL;DR Ground News is one of the places that teach you the position between American Left and American Right is actually neutral and balanced. It is very much not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

that's every mainstream news in the US. All of them.