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Would you prefer: 1) YT and Google employees watching over us OR 2) the Koch Brothers, paid actors from Russia and Saudi and hyper-partisan US groups, etc. al
by WhompingWindows 6y ago
Would you prefer:
1) YT and Google employees watching over us OR
2) the Koch Brothers, paid actors from Russia and Saudi and hyper-partisan US groups, etc. all flooding our information platforms with trash and noise, completely UNCHECKED, in the name of "freedom"?
I think there's solid evidence that option 2 is terrible for us, the USA has had a disastrous COVID response, for instance. Meanwhile, we haven't really tried option 1, we are just at the beginning of this censorship of trash information.
In general, I find many talking of "freedom" in US history are using it as a shield to ignore sticky issues and allow bad solutions to reign...freedom to own slaves, freedom to expand wherever and kill any natives there, freedom of pollution, freedom of marketing with harmful lies...freedom is an over-used and intellectually lazy concept.
- FpUser 6y ago>"I think there's solid evidence that option 2 is terrible for us, the USA has had a disastrous COVID response, for instance." So you are blaming Koch, Russia, information platforms, etc for Government fuckup? Does your Government decide their actions based on youtube videos? Somehow I doubt and if it does then it only has itself to blame.