My question was rhetorical. If SDF is so inclined to remain impartial to outlets like the Global Times or sometimes CCTV, which very clearly has a pro-Beijing spin to their content, issuing a warning when using sources from the other side shouldn't be needed. No need to let users know what the OP thinks is biased; let the readers judge for themselves.
You are entitled to post videos how you wish, however in the future I will continue to do my part as a fellow forum goer to flag videos from sources that much of our userbase would likely consider questionable.
I do not believe we should enable a trend in which a NTDTV or other FLG affiliated media outlet is posted here without an explicit flag or disclaimer, if not by the original poster then at least by other forum goers.
My post was a direct response to the OP's attempt to use this man's beating to push a certain political agenda with unsupported claims. I find it interesting that you'd see my point as derailing the narrative when the original post had just as much political flavor as mine.
As I've stated, everybody on this forum feels sympathetic towards the taxi driver and is more or less shocked at what transpired in the video.
A taxi driver's car is inside a crowd of black shirts, who for their own reasons do not provide a pathway out for the car for some reason, in such close proximity you can barely raise your arm and will be able touch the car. Then suddenly for unknown reasons the car veers to the left through the crowd, despite previously barely moving at a slow speed as seen in the video.
The man's car gets broken into, dragged out and beaten to a bloody pulp by the black shirts until he's half dead to such a degree that we don't even know if he might be still alive.
And of all the ways you decide to commentate on this event, you write that it's a "similarly-baseless assumption that the driver plowed into those protesters purely by accident or out of fear".
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/hong-kong-protests.t8580/page-172#post-573027
To level with you -- I actually fully agree that we don't know whether he drove into the crowd veering to the left deliberately or accidentally. It very well might have been partly deliberate. Who knows? We'll need an investigation to find out. If he's still alive and able too speak he might even be able to give us his own account of it.
However considering what happened to the man, and what
is documented on video -- going out of my way to point out "oh but he might have driven like that deliberately, or accidentally, we just don't know, we should let the police fully investigate before we judge"....
IMO that would have been insensitive, flirting with victim blaming, and inappropriate.
But if you think it was appropriate and proper then you are entitled to your position.