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Twitter's New 'Privacy' Policy Destroys Its Value for Decentralized Journalism
- e-clinton 5y agoHow do you both enable decentralize journalism and curve the spread of misinformation without measures like these?
- horns4lyfe 5y agoMisinformation will always be subject to whoever happens to be in power. If you want journalism to be centralized and condoned by some authority , then say so, because those two goals aren’t compatible.
- Buttersite 5y agoeducation?
- willcipriano 5y agoSeems like you need to check your priors. Either you want decentralized citizen-led journalism or you want to be free from what the establishment deems to be 'misinformation'. Due to human nature 'misinformation' is largely going to be whatever threatens establishment power, so 'misinformation' ends up being almost all decentralized citizen-led journalism in practice. "You can do journalism, as long as it isn't controversial"
- ehutch79 5y agoSoooo... things like "5g towers cause covid" should be allowed?
- bad_username 5y agoYes, yes they should be allowed. They should be mocked and argued with, but they should be allowed. Banning these things is the worst method of dealing with them, for many important reasons that frankly should be obvious.
- willcipriano 5y agoYou can get rid of "5g towers cause covid" but you also get rid of the Snowden leaks at the same time. I'd argue the value of the latter is worth the cost of the former.
- ehutch79 5y agobut the snowden stuff isn't untrue
- willcipriano 5y agoThe government said it was false when it first came out. Today they say "it was the Russians!". For you to be the arbiter of truth, first you must need a universal source of truth, no such thing exists.
- ehutch79 5y agoBut it's independently verifiable though. Snowden could show evidence. There's a gap between what you're talking about and 'misinformation' like 'vaccines cause autism', '5g towers cause covid' (which people actually tried burning down towers because of), 'pizzagate', 'jewish space lasers are causing california wildfires', etc These are objectively false things being presented as truth. which even then is a lot different than leaks that can be correlated
- willcipriano 5y agoIf they are so obviously false why are you concerned? Here are some other things that were "obviously false" and censored as misinformation by tech companies this year: Hunter Bidens laptop Wuhan gain of function research and the possibility of a lab leak Kyle Rittenhouse acting in self defense
- ehutch79 5y agoHow was any of that censored? I definitely have seen all that. One of those is actually a major trial that had coverage all over any platform.
- bigyellow 5y agoSeeing as how most misinformation is actually coming from centralized "journalism" sources these days, I'd say this is hardly a concern.
- theknocker 5y agoWhich is almost certainly the real point