The press demands censorship in the US and decries it in Russia and China

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1451910822066749441

by 1cvmask • 5 years ago

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Cryptonic• 5 years ago

Free speech and disinformation are two different things. IMAO intentional disinformation and influencing the masses with alternative facts (sometimes backed by a network of fake science institutes) should be considered a crime.

Blueskytech• 5 years ago

The problem is once you give someone arbiter powers for determining misinformation it’s going to be used on something that is factual either on accident or intentionally. Logically you can either have full free speech or you support censorship, I’m not convinced there is a workable middle ground.

southerntofu• 5 years ago

I think an alternative "middle ground" is to empower users and communities to enforce their own rules and views of the social graph, instead of having global omnipotent recommendation algorithms. I strongly desire a nazi-free WWW, yet i find that relying on the State to fight against nazism (despite most state apparatuses across the planet being filled with actual nazis) has more downsides than upsides.

The press demands censorship in the US and decries it in Russia and China

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