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Comment by hrdwdmrbl | Hacker News Reader

Note: this website often contains highly unreliable material and often publishes articles defending such things as the Berlin Wall.

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On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

This is just a general answer—I haven't looked at this particular article.

Yes, imagine a website publishing opinion pieces with diverse viewpoints, some of which you find repulsive... I fail to see how that is relevant for this particular article.

I just put a note. It's good to know what you're clicking on when you might not have heard of the website before. It provides something called "context".

The founder of the magazine defended the Berlin Wall and the killing of the surrendered Romanov children.

I for one am glad that freedom of speech exists (in practice as well as theory) and that people can express those two opinions, one of which I agree with and the other which I don't :)

Oh yes. They have a right to express themselves and I have a right to point out that they sold out their humanity.

Killing the Romanov children makes a lot of sense if you're trying to end a regime whose legitimacy is passed down by blood

Because it's not presented as an opinion from a single viewpoint but as news, which we expect (perhaps naively) to be balanced and have multiple viewpoints. That's the failure.

On the About Us page:

> Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

https://jacobin.com/about

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