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FasterThanJaws t1_iqxaqsi wrote

Reply to comment by littylikeatit in next stop, can we ban the golocalprov posts? by ryanfingawesome

It's poorly copy-pasted news from other sites. And the comments under most posts there tend to be racist/violent (MAGA Boomers from Facebook). Although I just checked some articles and it seems like comments are disabled. Don't know how long that's been like that, but it's for the better.

Most news articles posted here from reputable sources are locked behind a paywall. So you have to rely on that author or someone with a subscription to post the text in the comments. For that reason, it's acceptable enough to me. Poorly edited news about Providence is still better than nothing, as long as I can actually read it.

That said, GoLocal doesn't skew left when it comes to politics, and that's why people here actually hate it. And it's usually very outspoken right wing people posting these links, which adds fuel to the fire.

Also I'm having a laugh at the fact that you're downvoted for asking a simple question. This sub is not friendly to people who don't think/know the same things that they do.

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littylikeatit t1_iqxcdmt wrote

So are the news reports false? Or just not aligning with how people think? If they are an inconvenient truth then I think people need to ignore them or instigate discussion. If the news is false I would say to ban it

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captainsaltyballs t1_iqxkpow wrote

The news is not false. I’ve seen people on here calling it fear mongering since a specific user posts every crime report.

I posted about gun shots into the building that I lived next to before. I originally came here looking for information because I figured this sub was for community questions. It was upvoted, I guess because it wasn’t GoLocalProv, but it seems like that information is something people want to see.

I might be missing what everyone is upset about, but banning a domain is silly on a board that has community voting. That’s kind of the entire point of it. Only excuse is that this sub is dead as hell so that’s the most of what people are seeing.

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do_not_engage t1_iqxwl2w wrote

They don't report falsehoods, they report the truth in a very, very surface level biased way.

For example a recent story was that some hero kids got a pedophile teacher arrested by doing all the investigative work themselves, after authorities refused to investigate multiple allegations and reports against him.

The headline and article phrased everything so that if you didn't read carefully you would think the teacher was the victim and the kids were just extremist lefty teenagers looking to attack authority.

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