Richard Frost wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03 2020 8:34pm
Unsurprising given the current level of intelligence being displayed by some of those who do post. I myself limit my posting nowadays as most of the discussions are just so pointless, ill informed or just plain biased.
What's the alternative - allow ill informed posts to remain unchallenged? I agree in part - life's too short and that's an easy option, although also partly how we got into this dreadful mess.
I used to be a regular contributor on a long established money savers forum that permitted several members to copy+paste Vote Leave and Leave.EU propaganda unchecked throughout the 2016 referendum campaign. I left them to enjoy their echo-chamber after the result and surely wasn't the only member to do so. That site has been very quiet in recent years and just announced its imminent closure.
The UK newspapers have been gaslighting the population for decades. They've become comfortable with lies and intolerance. We have a government shifting further to the right on an almost daily basis and an opposition that's practically useless. The UK is in a pretty dark place.
The Sunday Telegraph boasted last weekend that they had waged a "war against the EU - which goes back decades" which obviously sells better than a mission to report news or inform their readership.
https://twitter.com/timothy_stanley/sta ... 49313?s=20
Yesterday Number 10 attempted to selectively exclude journalists from an official government briefing. Johnson is following Trump's playbook and we know where he learned it.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... porter-ban