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ah, no. As I'm sure you know, true neutrality is rare, and in a social system, where people come and go, neutrality is an unstable equilibrium. There is a sto
by niels_olson 16y ago
ah, no. As I'm sure you know, true neutrality is rare, and in a social system, where people come and go, neutrality is an unstable equilibrium.
There is a story about a Soviet diplomat and an American diplomat at a treaty conference. The Russian observes "I envy your propoganda. In the USSR, at least we know Pravda is lying. In the US, you don't even know that."
I would prefer Assange's idea: admit that neutrality is unstable and instead, take a stand, but back it up by publishing your source material. This is precisely what scientists do. Rare is the scientific article that publishes all the data from the study. Instead, they publish their analysis of the data: graphs, tables, words. The WikiLeaks model is actually more rigourous than most scientific literature: they publish the whole dataset on top of the analysis and editorial."