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Demanding even the slightest level of accountability for blatantly misleading or false information does not make them the final arbiter. It's not a binary choic
by jonbronson 7y ago
Demanding even the slightest level of accountability for blatantly misleading or false information does not make them the final arbiter. It's not a binary choice of absolute determination vs completely hands off.
- boreas 7y agoThere are many choices in the policy space, but the decision about how to treat an individual advertisement is essentially binary. The line between truth and falsehood must lie somewhere, and I can guarantee you that different political factions will have very different ideas about what should lie on either side of that line.
- gandutraveler 7y agoThe question is how do you define false information. Do we rely on consensus ? For e.g. let's say majority of the world population believe that earth is flat. In that case, will that still be false information? Even if we go with consensus, it's such a difficult problem to solve in this age of internet where new content is created at such a rapid pace.