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The exact same thing happens within China many years ago. China is decades ahead in information flow control. Websites like Weibo/QQ/Wechat will display a bann
by est 10y ago
The exact same thing happens within China many years ago. China is decades ahead in information flow control.
Websites like Weibo/QQ/Wechat will display a banner text saying some tweets (or microblogging cards as you call it) contains a mis-information.
Any mis-information with more than five hundred retweets will face criminal prosecution.
The result? Authorities fight mis-information with half-baked and premature refutes. In practice refutes can be 100% arbitrary even fake. You can't refute a refute because they are final, non-debatable and in-reversible. Remember the refute mechanism is to stop the spread of "mis-information" so debate refutes are dangerous and would cause Streisand effect.
The best part, the process is 100% manual, so PR firms totally lobbied website admins, officials in power, this corrupted industry is multi-million dollar business today.
So who watches the watchmen? It's a twisted long path ahead.
- skybrian 10y agoGood to know. Only, that doesn't sound like the "exact same thing". More like the parallel universe version (where Spock has a beard). I think the key point here is making sure your intelligent assistant works for you. Unfortunately, currently available assistants all come from powerful companies.
- ambicapter 10y ago> Any mis-information with more than five hundred retweets will face criminal prosecution. Seems like a BIG difference.