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The problem is, who gets to decide what is misinformation? If you declare misinformation as a reason for banning something, you really just create an arms race
by vikingerik 5y ago
The problem is, who gets to decide what is misinformation?
If you declare misinformation as a reason for banning something, you really just create an arms race to declare anything you don't like as misinformation in order to ban it.
Misinformation is fought in the market of free speech and ideas and critical thinking. Not by banning it. That's just might makes right.
- BizarroLand 5y agoTruth gets to decide what is misinformation. This is a divisive and absurd response to a simple statement. The truth is knowable quite easily when lies aren't allowed to survive.
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- md2020 5y agoTo me this is a naïve and overly-charitable view of the institutions we rely on to tell the truth about things we don’t directly observe. I’m fine leaving this as a disagreement, though, and honestly hope you are right.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSpin it around: who gets to decide what information and messages are amplifed? Because Reddit is not an unbiased information repository. It amplifies some messages and suppresses others, by numerous mechanisms. Some of those are under direct admin control, some subreddit moderators, some the collective hivemind of users, and a large portion through direct manipulation and gaming by various sources. The platform is already tilted. The question isn't "who" or "how", but what should it tilt towards: bulshit or truth?