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The problem there is that, at the end of the day, it's a fallible human putting stuff in the "bullshit blacklist". It also means that you're evaluating a statement based on its source rather than its merits, which is.. bad.

When you're the #1 source of information on stuff in the world, that's an awful lot of power that can be trivially abused (e.g. "let's just blacklist unfavorable coverage of this lawsuit against us").



> you're evaluating a statement based on its source rather than its merits, which is.. bad.

If you don't know the source, you have no way of knowing its merits, as you won't be aware of how the people came up with that knowledge.


By all means, show the source - just don't blacklist things based on the source. Truth is truth regardless of who speaks it.




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