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A few people writing articles is not a movement for mass censorship. But we do need to deal with the fact that the ability to motivate the masses, to control th
by NotSammyHagar 6y ago
A few people writing articles is not a movement for mass censorship. But we do need to deal with the fact that the ability to motivate the masses, to control them, via sending them information that convinces them of falsehoods is dangerous to democracy.
The source of this worry is that we could lose our democracy to what Neil Stephenson calls the Miasma.
- mirimir 6y agoHuh? Google, Facebook and Twitter are engaging in mass censorship!
- NotSammyHagar 6y agoThey have an interest in stopping scammers, and hate speech, racism, etc. In a pandemic they have an interest in stopping extremely misleading and destructive information. Should you be able to ask other people to hurt someone, to find out where there house is, to encourage people to hurt others? I think not. The challenge is always what is the line between complaining that xyz is a terrible person, or lying or a politician, how to separate people my clearly irrational or misleading statements. I really think Neil Stephenson captured this brilliantly year ahead of time in his idea of the Miasma.