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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Ben Smith needs to sit the hell down. We've spent the last five years living in a world of no gatekeepers. It's a world where every bit of salacious gossip, no matter how false and how defamatory, gets vaulted front and center in the public conversation. It's been a world of no guard rails, no confirmation or fact checking, where the worst actors have run amok and the only criteria from traditional media has been "who can get the story out first".

That world sucks. The fact that Ben himself may have been one of the few who displayed any responsibility while standing outside those gates does not in any way justify the other 99.9% of the unmitigated crap we have had to endure. Yes, it's important to keep the gatekeepers honest, but they serve a vital purpose. We've now seen how the very idea of truth and reality can corrode to the point that garbage like Qanon flourishes. Sorry Ben, gates exist for a reason...

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calliecallie's avatar

Be nice.

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