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I think The NY Times caused multiple orders of magnitude more innocent people to die by pushing for the invasion of Iraq than all the massacres caused by all the uncensored forums on the internet combined.

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I find it hard to fault a newspaper for pushing an opinion a large majority of it's readers share [1].

Also 9/11 was literally in their backyard. If someone flew a plane into your neighbors house you'd behave pretty irrationally as well

[1]https://news.gallup.com/poll/6964/top-ten-findings-about-pub...

9/11 has very little to do with the Iraq War, and pushing lies to a captivated audience is still detestable.

probably true, but not really a defense of 4chan

Yes, but the corporate media accusing somebody else of inciting violence is super comical.

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