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What is "neutral"? Neutral as in halfway between political extremes, even if that does a disservice to the truth? Or neutral as in only reporting fact-checked s

by Joeri 10y ago

What is "neutral"? Neutral as in halfway between political extremes, even if that does a disservice to the truth? Or neutral as in only reporting fact-checked stories, even if they're incredibly biased to one side? There is obviously false, and then there is everything else. I guess the best facebook can do is weed out the obviously false. If they do that, it is a guarantee that they will get attacked for being biased, because with the shifting of the political winds usually one party or the other spreads more misinformation.

rustynails 10y ago
Neural to me means stop favouring one special interest group over everybody else. When the NYT was seeking to hire a gender editor (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-gender-editor.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-gender-edi...) and said "women ruled the Olympics", "men used to dominate", etc. were they impartial? Was there any need for such divisiveness? What did they hope to gain? The special interest groups will move into Facebook. They will shut down anything they don't like and allow everything (no matter how intolerant) that aligns with their political agenda. Use "domestic violence" as an example by searching that term at Google. Almost all publications ignore worldwide government stats that show huge numbers of female perpetrators. Almost all media outlets say domestic violence is something only males do and only females are victims of, in spite of overwhelming evidence this is false. That's an example of non neutrality by a special interest group. It's lead to a starvation of funding and support for one sex. It's lead to animosity. Do you think Facebook will be impartial in their moderation? The special interest groups will apply extreme pressure and the result will be extreme views.

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What is "neutral"? Neutral as in halfway between political extremes, even if that does a disservice to the truth? Or neutral as in only reporting fact-checked s

by Joeri 10y ago

rustynails 10y ago
Neural to me means stop favouring one special interest group over everybody else. When the NYT was seeking to hire a gender editor (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-gender-editor.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-gender-edi...) and said "women ruled the Olympics", "men used to dominate", etc. were they impartial? Was there any need for such divisiveness? What did they hope to gain? The special interest groups will move into Facebook. They will shut down anything they don't like and allow everything (no matter how intolerant) that aligns with their political agenda. Use "domestic violence" as an example by searching that term at Google. Almost all publications ignore worldwide government stats that show huge numbers of female perpetrators. Almost all media outlets say domestic violence is something only males do and only females are victims of, in spite of overwhelming evidence this is false. That's an example of non neutrality by a special interest group. It's lead to a starvation of funding and support for one sex. It's lead to animosity. Do you think Facebook will be impartial in their moderation? The special interest groups will apply extreme pressure and the result will be extreme views.