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The only democratic way to have a vetting system for political messages would be to have an transparent government institute that are responsible to the public,
by belorn 6y ago
The only democratic way to have a vetting system for political messages would be to have an transparent government institute that are responsible to the public, and it seems to me then that we have just reinvented the censor bureau of the past.
- cm2187 6y agoAnd which will be run by a political appointee. I don’t think either party will be thrilled to have the other vetting political speech.
- lettergram 6y agoUgh we have a constitution to protect against stuff like this... Otherwise we’d have the ministry of truth which would be arresting people for inappropriate thoughts being expressed.
- charliebrownau 6y agoHowd that work with GUN Ownership Both Left and RIGHT is anti Gun
- anjel 6y agoIt's the classic problem of: But who will clean up after the janitors? When the highest authority is corrupted, there's no one left to (fairly) referee
- dr-detroit 6y agoFacebook is like yelling fire in every crowded movie theater at the same time X 1000000 A large segment of the population is getting high off of fiction about politicians as supervillains. People who have no access to alternative drugs so they are addicted to facebook dopamine. This is not free speech is silicon valley brainscience run amok.
- opaquegov 6y agoA transparent government institute? What's that? A kafkaesque bureaucracy operated by unelected and unappointed career bureaucrats accountable to no one that responds to FOIA requests in 18 - 36 months about why your ad was censored and your opponent's wasn't, after which you have no course of recompense? Yes, what we need is an organization like the IRS to govern political speech online that's a BRILLIANT idea why didn't anyone think of that, that will finally solve bias in political advertising