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243 points Jimmc414 | 3 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.597s | source
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aeternum ◴[13 Nov 24 21:49 UTC] No.42130415[source]▶
Real reason: The Guardian can't handle when readers community note them using.. The Guardian.

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1821189070401249385/p...

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anunes ◴[13 Nov 24 22:07 UTC] No.42130621[source]▶
Are community notes impartial?
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fwip ◴[13 Nov 24 22:28 UTC] No.42130873[source]▶
Community notes are not impartial, they are written and approved by the users who sign up to do so (and actually take the time to do this unpaid labor).

Thus, they tend to reflect the biases of the kind of people who most want to (and have time to) write and approve community notes, drawn from the pool of people who use your site.

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aeternum ◴[13 Nov 24 23:41 UTC] No.42131465[source]▶
Now do democracy and voting. Or how about serving on a jury. Or serving on a school board.

By your definition those also must not be impartial and maybe that is a fair definition but what does it imply?

Do you similarly distrust democratic outcomes, jury decisions, etc.?

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1. fwip ◴[14 Nov 24 04:02 UTC] No.42133059[source]▶
Jurors do not self-select into jury duty, though some try harder than others to get out of it. So the effect is less.

Voters are partial to the candidates they vote for; that's why they vote for them.

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2. mensetmanusman ◴[14 Nov 24 06:33 UTC] No.42133636[source]▶
I was able to get out of jury duty by saying I tended to agree with police. This was advice given to me by a friend in law enforcement.:.
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3. fwip ◴[14 Nov 24 12:37 UTC] No.42135627[source]▶
Yes, it's not difficult to get out of. You could also get out by saying that you don't trust the police, or any number of things that might affect your ability to be impartial in the case before you.