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It's unfortunate that big tech is essentially acting as a "morality arbiter" in such cases -- perhaps we need not only a separation of church and state, but als
by dvt 7y ago
It's unfortunate that big tech is essentially acting as a "morality arbiter" in such cases -- perhaps we need not only a separation of church and state, but also of tech and state.
- otachack 7y agoThe separation of church and state has been doing wonders, so far. \s
- yourbandsucks 7y agoWhy the sarcasm? Are people being defenestrated in Prague and I didn't notice? Religious conflict has been on a huge downswing for like 300 years.
- Barrin92 7y agoIf I had to make a guess the users comment aims at the American system where a privatisation of religion in combination with unrestricted free religious speech has mostly let to radicalisation. The alternative would be models like the UK, Germany or Denmark, where although churches have state representation, the reverse is also true and the state has effectively securalised and reigned religious institutions in.
- yellow_postit 7y agoHow are they in this case? Seems like a straightforward fact based claim. The one side claimed there is never a medical reason for terminating a pregnancy and the fact check organization listed a series of such medical condition such.
- jowsie 7y agoWhat's stranger is that the person claiming there's no medical reason for termination then goes on to list an acceptable medical reason for termination (ectopic pregnancy).
- Kaveren 7y agoif you want a social network where you can say whatever you want without interference go use gab or 4chan. it's facebook's choice whether or not they want to do this. edit: "whatever you want" supposed to be figure of speech, seemingly this must be pointed out.
- bonerman69 7y agoYou mean 8chan? I don't know about gab but you can not say whatever you want on 4chan...
- snark42 7y ago> but you can not say whatever you want on 4chan Since when? Probably depends on which board you're talking about I guess.
- dmix 7y ago8chan was still down since Cloudfare cancelled it last I checked. “Big tech”s reach extends beyond the mega platforms onto smaller independent sites too. Few sites are totally unmoderated either, I doubt gab is totally unmoderated either. They all take down spam, illegal stuff, and harassing/abusive people afaik. If not I dont see how their communities would last very long.
- cannonedhamster 7y agoGab is a far right platform that moderates away anything left of Rush Limbaugh. They were upset that Reddit banned some really terrible and often times illegal acts from their platform. So they moved to their own platform. Their community is very open to fringe talk, hate speech as a form of free speech, and doxxing. A link for reference but far from the only instance. https://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-sentence-far-extremist-050623746.html https://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-sentence-far-extremist-...
- bmarquez 7y ago4chan (and 8chan) have a Global Rule #1 which says you can't post anything which violates U.S. or local laws. Also trolling and racism are quarantined to /b/ I doubt there are any "anything goes" social networks in existence.
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- jjulius 7y agoDid you read the article? The fact check has nothing to do with being a morality arbiter. They simply provided the facts as they pertain to the claims. It's up to the viewer to take that information and process how they feel about it from there.
- rand4321 7y agoHow many videos from the other side do they 'FACT CHECK' in big bold letters? Its not the factchecking in and of itself thats the issue.
- jjulius 7y agoSomeone else in a separate comment chain in this thread posited the same point (that fact checks happen more often for right-leaning videos than for left-leaning videos). I asked for data to support that assertion but wasn't provided any. Do you have data to support what you are inferring?