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@danirabbit @bkuhn @purple Bradley, if you were to go on Fox news they would be platforming *you*.
When you go on the Nazi hour talk show however, you are legitimizing and giving credibility to someone who is already a nobody and shunned outcast. You platformed the nazi in this case.
Additionally, having that guy cover the issue in any authoritative capacity means that nobody is gonna touch it and its only undermines your goals.
@alatiera Yes, it'd be be a dream if FOSS were important enough to be platformed by Fox News. But we aren't. 
I'm barely famous enough to be invited on FOSS' “local” Fox News, but I seriously doubt it got new viewers due to my interview& the viewers got to hear the platform itself criticized for once.
I wish I were famous enough that my doing an interview was some sort of “get”. But I'm just not.
I'm still being careful to not say the actual name so as not to promote it.
@danirabbit @purple
@bkuhn @danirabbit @purple Fox news has more viewership than all the other channels combined. This guy can’t pay rent without a fuck trans people a week video. There are a bunch of other channels in our space with 2 magnitudes higher viewership.
(1/2) Note, @alatiera, that interview isn't recent.
Like most ppl¹ going down the rabbit hole, Mr.FoxNewsOfFOSS gets a bit worse every month. I've known him for 20 years & like my dad¹, his toxicity is a slowly worsening target.
I am sure ignoring them is a mistake, though.
¹My own dad is an e.g.: my dad donated to SFC's Outreachy program as recently as late 2024, & now he thinks I & my colleagues are “getting what we deserve“ from Trump's anti-LGBTQIA EOs.
Cc: @danirabbit @purple
@bkuhn I agree with you that not dealing with him has been a colossal mistake and attitudes like that become the norm and permissible behavior.
However you didn't go to Tucker Carlon on Fox prime time. You went on a show airing at 3 am on Newsmax
And its not a game of sum, one thing doesn't undo the work you've done all this years. It's just that we don't want to se a repeat of it.
I wish FoxNewsOfFOSS was the 3AM Newsmax, @alatiera but sadly, he really *is* the Tucker Carlson of FOSS.
I & my colleagues meet ppl often who learn about FOSS *from* his show. He has a *lot* of viewers & (ala Fox) get FOSS news nowhere else.
If I got just 10 of his viewers to stop treating him as their primary FOSS news source, my interview was worth it.
It does alarm me how quickly folks are blocking me entirely b/c I once employed a strategy that we anti-fascist can reasonably disagree about.