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I thought he was saying exactly the opposite: "We must push back against misinformation by encouraging gatekeepers such as Google and Facebook to continue thei
by Silhouette 10y ago
I thought he was saying exactly the opposite:
"We must push back against misinformation by encouraging gatekeepers such as Google and Facebook to continue their efforts to combat the problem, while avoiding the creation of any central bodies to decide what is “true” or not."
- tomohawk 10y agoSounds like doublespeak to me. Google and Facebook both took partisan positions in the past election. Why should we trust them as 'gatekeepers'? And who gets to decide who the gatekeepers are? An oligopoly made up of elite companies is no better than a monopoly, especially when the members are demonstrably partisan. This whole idea that we need some sort of authority to act as the Ministry of Truth is misguided.
- Silhouette 10y agoThis whole idea that we need some sort of authority to act as the Ministry of Truth is misguided. You seem to keep coming back to this point, but the quote I gave before literally advocates the opposite of creating such an authority.