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I'm pretty sure being critical of efforts to censor information is part of the hacker ethos ("information should be free"). I think this is actually why the Tw
by kill-procrustes 6y ago
I'm pretty sure being critical of efforts to censor information is part of the hacker ethos ("information should be free").
I think this is actually why the Twitter approach ("some or all of this tweet is disputed") is a good way to go. You're providing more information—links to people who disagree—rather than hiding information.
- kenjackson 6y agoMisinformation is more akin to me saying that I want gcc to ship my malware. No one is saying you can’t ship malware, but gcc doesn’t have to be your vehicle.
- kill-procrustes 6y agoThis is a classic problem of "who decides?" Unlike malware, lots of things initially written off as misinformation turn out to be true. I'm not going to argue that YouTube doesn't have a legal right to do what they're doing, but assuming that they're specially knowledgeable about truth and falsity strikes me as an incredible act of hubris. All of that said, I recognize that disinformation and misinformation is a serious and tricky problem. I think the American right partially has themselves to blame for throwing so much mud at the wall. I understand YouTube not wanting to be hijacked and used as a political vehicle. But at the end of the day they function as a commons, and I think society is worse off when they censor content like this.
- lliamander 6y agoThe idea of what Twitter is doing isn't necessarily bad, but its application has been terrible.