Other than in this article, and those like it, where exactly does it say that this PAC will be pro-SOPA? I haven't seen anything at all from Netflix saying as much.
This is amusingly confusing.
Maybe the featured story on mind control weapons that are about to turn us all into zombies that's there today will change people's minds?
Or maybe we do want to discard troll stories from here and The Weekly World News since they aren't opinions but just link bait.
Not so confusing when you understand that RT is a Putin mouthpiece.
I thought we as a society figured out that this is an entirely wrong reason to shut someone off. First of all, you can be honestly mistaken.
I guess I had this one wrong.
RT is not an opinion or a perspective, they are a source that lacks credibility. It is not that their opinions are "wrong" to me, or that I disagree with them, it is that they fabricate, sensationalize and mislead people. As is the case with this article and many more.
Those are not characteristics of a debate in which all participants and opinions are given a fair shot -- you know, the ones dissidents fight for.
By the way, this is a private website, not a public space, and I have no problem with Hacker News outright banning whatever they want. Especially if it means I have to read less made-up crap. And if they end up banning legitimate sources, I can go elsewhere. Or if they're like reddit and refuse to police themselves -- letting the community's cynical attitude pervade the entire website's content, skewing the news and making it an unreliable representation of current events -- I can go somewhere else too.
You might have a hard-on for calling me a hypocrite, but really you're just making yourself look like an ass.