So, until recently, I have been using https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/blob/master/hosts.txt
However, as some issues that I have opened have shown, there are a bunch of left wing and progressive sites on this list ( https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/issues ). I no longer think that it is trustworthy. Especially after reading some of the repo owners replies. Intentionally added was t.me which is a generic url for any telegram group. Discordapp.com was on it at one point.
Oy Vey. It’s clear to me that the owner of this repo is not actually spending much time actually curating this list and instead it’s just a shotgun approach. Does anyone know of a good alternative?
Perhaps you’re not familiar with this blocklist and how it doesn’t exclusively include QAnon sources, as I indicated.
No list can exclusively contain QAnon sources. It isn’t possible. You’re relying on someone else or a group of people to make that determination. In doing so, you’re blocking non-QAnon sources that you may just happen to disagree with. They also block far-right sites as described in the Github. How far to the right does the site have to be to be blocked? You’ve now created an echo chamber by blocking the opposition, all because you trusted that a list called “no-qanon” only blocked QAnon.
Sorry, I was more responding to your point of me describing qanon a deranged cult as being somehow a bad faith partisan shutdown. Calling qanon a deranged cult is not the same as me saying “everyone to the right of my own beliefs is brainwashed and in a CULT!!”
im talking about qanon specifically… Their beliefs center on violent and hateful rhetoric against anyone outside of their group, and propose eliminating their enemies or groups they deem to be evil (using baseless accusations of cannibalistic satanism) They accuse everyone they deem to be enemies of being part of a vast imaginary plot, celebrities, lgbtq people, minorities, democrats, whatever. Only their group and its infallible, heroic leaders have the answers. This is how cults operate.
What I’m saying is, a group who believe I am somehow a cannibalistic satanist for being on the left are maybe not worth including in the political discourse. (Beyond discussing their influence as a threat to democracy). Excluding the violent nut-jobs from the conversation is not “creating an echo chamber”.