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> there should be "block designed" hiring around these issues to maximize political diversity and reduce bias in aggregate How do we deal with those who would
by unityByFreedom 10y ago
> there should be "block designed" hiring around these issues to maximize political diversity and reduce bias in aggregate
How do we deal with those who would push treasonous information? If WikiLeaks publishes correspondence between, say, USA and China, that is private because China wanted it that way, and that hurts American allies, should this be allowed to trend on an American-based website?
Has WikiLeaks contributed to the right wing propaganda we see being pushed online? Should some of this be punishable?
- dlss 10y agoThese are very good questions, and have been debated at extensively (as you might imagine for such important questions) by humanity's legal, ethical, and philosophical scholars. Here's the current state of things with references as to why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite... although I have some emotional disagreement with those policies at times, I can't say I'm well read enough on the topic to really have a strong disagreement personally.
- unityByFreedom 10y agoThanks. I mention it because, as a tech enthusiast, I was once very much in the camp of "we should know everything our government does" Now, I understand that "we can't know everything, because some other governments won't tell us their true feelings if we don't keep those conversations private." Perhaps one day some Chinese or Russian hackers will level the playing field. In the mean time, I wonder if more tech folks can understand that our government might actually want to prosecute Snowden, Assange etc. for legitimate threats to our national security.