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Please bear with me, as I'm honestly having a hard time figuring out what you mean here.

Your guidelines don't cover obvious bias in the headline as it exists without modification.

Does this mean that you think the actual article title "In Support of Free Speech" includes obvious bias? Or that the title submitted by 'jletroui, "Shopify refuses to censor Breitbart", includes obvious bias?

If the former, I don't see that it's egregiously biased. It appears to be an accurate representation of what the author describes in the piece. It's definitely not biased enough to warrant changing the title.

If the latter, I agree with the guidelines: the article title should stand unless it's clearly link bait, which I don't think this is. I think the modified title definitely editorializes and adds the bias of the submitter, which is definitely against the guidelines.

As an aside, these aren't my guidelines any more than they are yours. They're the site guidelines.



"Does this mean that you think the actual article title "In Support of Free Speech" includes obvious bias?"

If you can't see the ABSOLUTELY OBVIOUS POLITICAL BIAS, then I think you've got problems you need to have checked.


It's clearly a political piece, written from a particular point of view, so in that sense you could consider the piece biased. The title accurately represents the intent of the piece.

For the title to be biased in the sense that it requires modification would mean that it is in some way either misrepresenting the piece (i.e., click bait) or misrepresenting facts. "In Support of Free Speech" is doing neither. If you're of the opinion that that Shopify's stance is wrong, that's fine, but that doesn't mean that the title of the piece is wrong or biased in a way that requires updating. Shopify's position is one where people disagree, as is abundantly clear from this (and similar) threads.

At this point it's pretty clear we're at best talking past each other, and as there's not much else I have to say on this topic, I'll leave it at that.




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