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> Tech and social media companies are algorithmically dictating what you see and hiding behind the fact that it’s not “their content.” Why is this considered different from a news site which exclusively hosts opinion pieces from independent journalists?

They're considered different because the news site doesn’t have an “upload article”-button that lets anyone host an article of their choice on the news site in question.



This doesn't matter in practice - the upload button you see on YouTube will never get you on the front page.


neither does editorials that news sites approve and publish. Are we suggesting (on a site with point based sorting nonetheless) that curation is an inherently manipulative strategy on the internet with terabytes of content created per day?


>They're considered different because the news site doesn’t have an “upload article”-button that lets anyone host an article of their choice on the news site in question.

Social media companies don’t let anyone post about anything they want, either. They’ll ban you for not following their rules.




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