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MacRumors is biased

maflynn said:
I'm generally a black and white sort of person, so in my mind you're either right or wrong with your allegations.
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I have a hard time agreeing with the "black & white" part fully.

In my experience, @laptech is quite correct below (the quote) about the wielding of the term "political" to justify removals of basically anything.

Politics and/or political as a term can be really rather subjective and very much not black & white. Sometimes we get entire threads that seem like they should be in the political area, and are not? And vice versa. Additionally, you can get a post removed just for saying "Trump" or "EU" (long list of words here), even with barely any insinuation or additional context.

Also, I'm hard pressed to believe that moderators don't factor in previous interactions or known views of posters when these subjective calls come into play. I'm not even saying that's totally wrong, but it highlights how it's very often not about "black & white adherence to rules" and far more about a subjective call with biases inevitably creeping in. I think we'd all be naive to think otherwise.

laptech said:
negative posts get removed for being classed as 'off topic' or 'political in a non political thread' when they are not but it gives MR the excuse to remove them.
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maflynn said:
You misunderstood. I said I'm generally black or white, and in this case I feel Laptech is either right or wrong - its a personal perspective. I'm not making a statement of fact that everything is black or white, just my perspective tends to be
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oh! You're right, I did misunderstand. Sorry about that.
I need more coffee..
 
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turbineseaplane said:
An example just popped up ..
This should really be in political based upon where one should know where the conversation will lead.

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Done deliberately in my opinion because if anyone makes an anti-China/Apple post the mod's can claim it is political and remove it. Like I said in one of my posts, MR wants to control the narrative around Apple hence why they put certain types of Apple news in the news section and not the political section, it restricts what members can post about.
 
I’ve tend to agree the way news articles are not consistent and it’s difficult to tell what the update was.

However:
laptech said:
I believe you have missed the point the OP is trying to make which is if a member makes a valid negative post about Apple it get's removed under the guise of 'it's political and therefore breaks forum rules'. This means MR gets to set the narrative on news regarding Apple and if a member makes a post that goes against the narrative it get's removed.
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There are plenty of negative posts that make it through the “bias filter”. I think political posts the news section are the issue and what constitutes a political post is contentious.
laptech said:
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I was going to say something but am not allowed because rules prevent me from insulting the MR membership, even when they deserve it.
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The above deserves an insult but rules forbid.
turbineseaplane said:
The day they nuke the "haha" reaction will be a good day.
That is overwhelmingly used for laugh trolling.
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It is. As was pointed out multiple threads on this.
turbineseaplane said:
I'd be a huge fan of "positive only" emoji reactions.
Frankly, just the thumbs up or heart are enough.

It's not positively additive to the community to have "downvote" & "laughing at people" post pile ons that happen now.
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The downvote clearly needs to stay and the laughing emoji needs to be changed to one that conveys a thumbs up. I know we could go back and forth on this till the cows come home, but my latest thinking on this is limits on all reactions. YMMV.

Edit: you suggest the downvote be gone and yet you make liberal use of it.
 
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I7guy said:
laughing emoji needs to be changed to one that conveys a thumbs up
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There's already a thumbs up
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smirking said:
Respect.

Apple's made some decisions lately that really have me questioning if all their privacy talk is just a bunch of privacy sane-washing to sell more product.

It also makes me question if I should be planning an offramp to Linux in the future.
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If you do make a change keep us posted in the appropriate forums.
 
smirking said:
Respect.

Apple's made some decisions lately that really have me questioning if all their privacy talk is just a bunch of privacy sane-washing to sell more product.

It also makes me question if I should be planning an offramp to Linux in the future.
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turbineseaplane said:
It's a thought that keeps reoccurring in my mind as well, especially in light of the Apple software "design" direction of late.
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you should, linux+grapheneOS is the future for any privacy conscious person.

while Apple is at reasonably better position than MS and google, they too started collecting data and requiring online accounts. Its happening but at lesser extent and slower pace. If EU chat control is to be implemented then they will have to follow along "according to the law" and who knows what after that.
 
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fatTribble said:
I was under the impression that the focus of MacRumors was rumors about new products Apple might release or changes to their existing products and software.

But maybe I just see it that way because that’s what I’m most interested in reading. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🤔
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you have the wrong impression. Maybe that how it WAS , now it publishing Samsung discounts and ChatGPT articles.
 
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MacBH928 said:
you should, linux+grapheneOS is the future for any privacy conscious person.

while Apple is at reasonably better position than MS and google, they too started collecting data and requiring online accounts. It’s happening but at lesser extent and slower pace. If EU chat control is to be implemented then they will have to follow along "according to the law" and who knows what after that.
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To be fair, as the EFF points out, Apple is still the only one allowing Advanced Data Protection. And every time I look into the data they are collecting, it usually ain’t much.

Now contrast that with every other corporation right now and it ain’t good. Even with grapheneOS, one would still need to use Google products for email, messaging, etc.,
 
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eltoslightfoot said:
To be fair, as the EFF points out, Apple is still the only one allowing Advanced Data Protection. And every time I look into the data they are collecting, it usually ain’t much.

Now contrast that with every other corporation right now and it ain’t good. Even with grapheneOS, one would still need to use Google products for email, messaging, etc.,
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you can use signal for messaging, protonmail, tuta mail.

Only with youtube you are out of luck
 
You do not even need an account to get any kind of alert or notification for new video content on there. Unless you become a creator and or upload videos. According to details/stats a good amount of YouTube users do that.
 
MacBH928 said:
you should, linux+grapheneOS is the future for any privacy conscious person.

while Apple is at reasonably better position than MS and google, they too started collecting data and requiring online accounts. Its happening but at lesser extent and slower pace. If EU chat control is to be implemented then they will have to follow along "according to the law" and who knows what after that.
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Which is no help if your employer uses Office 365.
 
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