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Mark Zuckerberg's Holocaust comment isn't the only thing he got wrong
- dredmorbius 8y agoBad link? https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/19/holocaust-denial-isnt-the-only-thing-mark-zuckerberg-got-wrong/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...
- chatmasta 8y agoBad bad link? https://outline.com/dcvPUK https://outline.com/dcvPUK
- dredmorbius 8y agoWell, yes, that's how I prefer to read it myself.
- firic 8y agothanks for the real link. this is the first time I noticed their slogan is "democracy dies in darkness". I think this says enough about who wp is catering for.
- chatmasta 8y agoIt’s a sad state of affairs when the Washington Post is advocating censorship of wrongthink. One might even call it double plus sad... I don’t even want to waste the energy on explaining all the potential pitfalls of a corporate entity (or anyone!) acting as judge, jury and executioner of censorship. Maybe we all need to re-read Fahrenheit 451, 1984, etc...
- fenwick67 8y agoFacebook curating posts is very different from the government regulating information.
- frabbit 8y agoIt`s different, but if they`re the information channel used by the majority of people then it has the same effect.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoRight -- it's done without transparency or due process.
- qubax 8y ago> It’s a sad state of affairs when the Washington Post is advocating censorship of wrongthink. They've been advocating for censorship for a while now. They along with the NYTimes and CNN are the main proponents of censorship. They've successfully lobbied to get google search, youtube, facebook, reddit, etc censored or "curated" to their liking. It's why google news now has tons of washingtonpost stories everyday whereas 10 years ago, they showed up regularly but not to today's spam-level. If you want to be shocked, use web archives and see how google news changed. If you google anything now, google will pretty much return news mostly articles. Even recipes and movies returns news links. Growing up, I was misled into believing that the news industry and liberals were for free speech. Today, it's the news industry and liberals who are demanding censorship everywhere.
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- xupybd 8y agoWell I couldn't disagree more. Good on Mark for not choosing to censor those views. Misinformation needs to be combated with information not censorship. The correct way to deal with a Holocaust denier isn't to tell them how evil and anti-Semitic they are. It's to point them to the evidence they're wrong. Try to understand their world view and dismantle it with truth. If you just shut these people out of society the only interaction you can have will be conflict. To write off someone with different beliefs is at the very least arrogant and counter productive.
- frabbit 8y agoZuckerberg`s Holocaust comment is one of the few things he`s got right: there is no place for government regulating Free Speech. Not because Holocaust deniers are anything but deranged and odious, but because any such power placed in the hands of government can and will be abused.