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Politicization threw a wrench into COVID and it’s doing the same to climate change. Years of media gaslighting, fear mongering, and authoritarian tactics have l
by emerged 5y ago
Politicization threw a wrench into COVID and it’s doing the same to climate change. Years of media gaslighting, fear mongering, and authoritarian tactics have left us in a social reality where nobody cares any longer what the talking heads in the media or shouting on social media have to say.
- Tarsul 5y agoand that's why "free speech" should never have meant "free reign to lie, fear monger and hate speech".
- bumby 5y agoThis may be country dependent. In the US, the Supreme Court has been clear that there is no hate speech limitation to the 1st amendment, for example. But there are limits to lying, as in perjury and libel cases.
- dotnet00 5y agoThe ministry of truth approves of this message.
- mjevans 5y agoIt's difficult to judge speech even by contemporary standards. There tend to be high bars for bad speech, clearly harmful, E.G. fire in a crowd when there isn't fire. How easy is it to prove something is a lie, rather than a very selective viewpoint or opinion? What if someone chooses to believe a set of sources biased to their preferred outcome? We should also be lucky to encounter and hopefully have laws against hate speech; the slippery slope stuff that's subjectively icky but not quite across that line is more insidious.
- epistasis 5y agoI would argue that the problem is that we care far to much about what the talking heads in the media and the shouting on social media. That's the source of misinformation and inaction on climate change.