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It is a sad state of affairs that being "state-affiliated" is a negative thing.
by datadata 3y ago
It is a sad state of affairs that being "state-affiliated" is a negative thing.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThats not necessarily true if its the weather service, post office or whatever. I am no Twitter fan/user, but its a decent format for circulating government announcements that people will actually see.
- troyvit 3y agoInterestingly NOAA isn't listed as state media: https://twitter.com/NOAA https://twitter.com/NOAA
- brucethemoose2 3y agoYeah, that is the hypocrisy. The argument is that its fair to label NPR as govt funded, because they technically are, but Twitter is not exactly in a hurry to apply this rule anywhere else.
- stametseater 3y agoThis was the implication of the label from the start, when twitter created it years ago.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThat depends a great deal on which state it's affiliated with. How much do you trust that state?
- DrThunder 3y agoWhat's sad is that people just automatically assume every government is altruistic when history has proven that to be unequivocally false. There is not ONE government in history that hasn't committed disgusting atrocities against its people. When you realize that, it becomes clearly easy to see that you ought not put full trust media that is backed by government when every government has used media like this to push evil propaganda on to its citizens.