Suicide can never be a voluntary, rational and thought-out decision, otherwise their entire narrative would crumble and fall apart. I'm not surprised they wrote another article and completey ignored what I said
in my last thread deconstructing their talking points. Because they've just called us collectively pro-suicide again despite my refutal, which shows me any response to these journalists is a waste of time and that's gonna be my position now going forward. They're literally gnoring the fact that everything I've said as site administrator, everything our moderators have said and everything our members said in this forum tends to be clearly pro-choice.
It's clear they're not doing any of this in good faith. They just keep making up stuff and ignore everything we have to say to our defense. Even when they reach out and refute allegations, it barely ever changes the framing in their articles. And it's been like that for years. Which again, is the reason why we're not responding anymore. They're not interested in following journalistic guidelines and taking into consideration
why this forum exists and more importantly, why members
use it. The most important question remains unanswered to this day and that's: why do people keep making accounts here, despite all the smearing and slandering that happens in the media? It would be the response to many of the questions these journalists have about our forum. But they don't want to hear it and it's simple, the answer as to why people use this forum doesn't fit into their narrative. And the framing in the most recent article makes it very clear to me it's all about laying out the framework for more legislation to crack down on online speech. It's supposed to weaponize Ofcom and enable them to be more oppressive towards content that violates their idiotic Online Safety Bill, one of the most regressive online bills in history. Why do you think the last paragraph of that article is essentially a plea to Ofcom to take more drastic action against our forum? It's literally that, these journalists don't like we're still around despite all attempts to deplatform us with these articles.
And like, again it's bad journalism. All they did here is essentially summarize what other articles already said about this forum in the past. Like, the partner megathread has already been covered in other reports years ago, just saying. None of this information is in any way a new revelation to anyone. But they know we're not going anywhere, so they have to come up with new content somehow to keep the attention on our forum, to keep the pressure up. That's why they've been recycling "news"., it's lazy, it's one-sided and to me it's very clear if I check out
what these journalists personally think should happen to the site administrators of this forum and to people who sell completely legal products that they're nothing more than mouth pieces for activists trying to shut down the forum, something I've already brought up in my last thread debunking why we're not pro-suicide and they're basically hiding their simplistic and reductive opinion pieces on ethical matters which have as much substance as the average internet blog post as news pieces of one of the most influental news outlets in Europe. They have nothing on us.
Nice drastic increase in guests btw, it looks like this report will backfire once again, leading to plenty of new registrations from members who are grateful they've been guided to our direction because a forum that's pro-choice and doesn't impose views seems to be a pretty attractive place to people who value freedom and individual autonomy, especially when they're struggling themselves with whatever life throws at them. But what do I know. It's not like I've said repeatedly in the past that talking about this forum is the dumbest thing you can do if you sincerely believe this forum is such a horrible and disgusting place. But keep shooting your own foot, all you do is making this place more popular and saying you're not mentioning this forum out of 'ethical concern', doesn't change the fact that the average person can still find this forum with a little bit of research rather quickly and what you're doing is morally repulsive by your
own moral standards, okay. Like, "this forum is horrible and it should go away" does not match well with "let's talk about this forum again and again and expose them to people who didn't previously know about this place" because again, the only advertisment we have right now is the BBC. And it's even free, well thanks a lot.
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As for the article itself, not gonna waste any time on it. There are again countless lies in there which aren't even worth debunking anymore, such as "the thread encourages users to end their own lives - and offers instructions on how to do it", that's simply wrong and you can look it up for yourself. But as I said, waste of time. It's funny how they're legit spreading fake news for the lols on the internet and now it's my job to fact check them or something. Like they don't even pretend anymore that their articles are factual or accurate, these are just shitposts at this point. It's hilarious.
