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Obama mentioned that he wants an internet "curating function" for determining truthful information. Watch about 5 minutes of this talk starting at 58:00 to get
by 75j 10y ago
Obama mentioned that he wants an internet "curating function" for determining truthful information. Watch about 5 minutes of this talk starting at 58:00 to get the full context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikQFWNYct4&t=3480s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikQFWNYct4&t=3480s
I refuse to believe that he's not smart enough to know how problematic that is. It's not totally clear from his speech (does he just want a central repository of trusted information, or does he want to actually remove certain information from the internet?) but it's a perfect example of Obama couching dangerous ideas in soft, pragmatic language.
- dao- 10y agoIt seems like we have no ideal choices here. Clearly we can't just sit back and let fake news / propaganda go viral and eventually determine the course of civilization. Curating is a very broad term, it can mean anything between having websites soft-rated, wikipedia-style crowdsourced curating, and opaque state-level censorship. The devil is in the details.
- cmdrfred 10y agoI don't think an ideal solution exists for practically anything at a global scale. Modern sanitation increased public health significantly, but what of the plight of the humble chamberpot maker? What we have is ideology, and in America we have an ideology that speech is to be free and unrestricted.
- croon 10y agoI agree with your assessment otherwise, but I interpret "curation" as a wikipedia style project. Though that is problematic enough in its own right.
- dajohnson89 10y agoNo. Wikipedia is curation of the commons, so to speak. The government will censor.