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I’d love to see the removal, or culling of op-ed pieces. It’s not news.
Given the removal of the US only restriction here, I am hoping that we can use [email protected] as a place that allows for analysis and op-eds, and keep [email protected] as the place that does not allow op-eds and focus solely on world news.
Right, but removing the US only restriction leaves no community that allows validated news only. Nowadays, op-eds are about as close to dis-informative fake news as one can get. It’d be nice to have a Reuters’esque-based non-biased news source here.
I disagree strongly. The arguments and rhetoric that politicians and pundits throw at each other is a huge part of the political process in a democracy with liberal speech rights.
Besides that, basically every political movement starts out as opinion. Like, "Hey, I don't think the king has divine rights and he ought to be forced to listen to us a bit," isn't an objective fact, it's an opinion. A great opinion if you ask me and one I would fight for in 19th century Europe or whatever, but I can't give you any tangible measurable thing that conclusively proves that that's the way it ought to be. I just have a really strongly felt opinion about it.
News communities shouldn't have any op-ed pages, but politics pages are exactly where those kinds of articles belong imo.