I agree that a lot of politicized content is shit. Yesterday I checked reddit and an article was titled 'ultra-rich reminded of pitchforks if they don't share' or some asinine bullshit. I would enjoy not having this relentless ragebait spam here.
@news is like 50% american political news. The newcomers are reproducing what they did on reddit. It's news material to them.
I do however think, that I can just block them right?
You cannot block the content they upvote. You can block a magazine, but why would you block @news? Why should it be the de facto american political channel? Also the content induces a type of comment. If the frontpage is made of rageclick then subscribers will be rageclick consumers.
So we have reenacted the reddit process. Except we did it way faster.
I think you are right to caution but maybe a little over the top.
It's only the beginning, the worse is yet to come as today is the last day for apollo and co.