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We could always go the cigarette route: Put a big sticker (legally required) in front of every twitter & facebook post/page just like cigarette boxes need a "sm
by NalNezumi 6y ago
We could always go the cigarette route: Put a big sticker (legally required) in front of every twitter & facebook post/page just like cigarette boxes need a "smoking kills" sticker. Something like:
"Warning: This site contains highly speculative & offensive gossip and might cause anxiety, stress, unattainable standards and lowered self-esteem. Information on this site should not be considered credible, and might cause radicalization and extremism."
- Aerroon 6y agoThe problem is that cigarettes aren't vital to a functioning democracy, information is. When you impose limits on the spreading of information you give tools that can be abused to block valid information. Even if the 'block' is putting a label on everything, it'll still limit the spread of information.
- galbar 6y agoDevil's advocate: democracy worked well (at least as well as the last ten years) before everyone could voice their oppinions in a worldwide public forum. We had journalists that spread the information through various channels.
- Aerroon 6y agoDid it actually work well though? Because most democracies are rather young. Look at interwar Europe and how most of those democracies turned into autocracies. A longstanding democracy in history seems to be more of an exception rather than the rule. And most of those seem to come with some pretty big asterisks too. It rather seems to me that democracies today have performed better in terms of stability than in the past.