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  • I’m sorry, but most of the comments here are actually out of the loop.

    The answer is “it’s worldnews”. It’s the only main sub that has as many pro-Israel opinions. Yes, there are other international news subs which are much more pro-Palestine, the biggest probably being anime_titties (not a joke). So part of the users that would be more vocally against Israel have left indeed (or might have).

    I’m not sure it’s the mods, but I’ve seen cries of censorship from people both in anime_titties and Conservative accusing the worldnews mods of being biased against them, so who knows.

    As for your last question, worldnews is actually now much more critical of Israel that it was in the first months after October 7th. You can regularly see pretty scathing criticisms of Netanyahu in general, and doubly so when they commit war crimes like from recent memory that “double tap” bombing that killed 20+ people that even Israel recognized as a “tragic mistake”.

    That’s what I have seen after reading very regularly the comments on worldnews on that conflict for quite a few years now.

    Also, on the flotilla thing it seems debatable that Israel did anything, since the Tunisian government itself denied it (source). And they are no friend of Israel.





  • Digitalisation is a pretty large investment, and libraries typically have pretty tight budgets, so outside of governmental (or philantropic) intervention I assume it might happen very slowly or not at all. Old books are very fragile, so any intervention must be done very carefully.

    And outside of that… while the contents can be saved with digitalisation, there is value in the object itself, and that’s what they are trying to protect. They won’t just abandon the items they protected for centuries because the text has been moved to another format.