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I agree with you, preserving freedom of expression is important, and it is easy to enforce irl, but online today it is easy to drown out people's opinions by fl

by XyC0 5y ago

I agree with you, preserving freedom of expression is important, and it is easy to enforce irl, but online today it is easy to drown out people's opinions by flooding fb/twitter/comment-sections by bot-farms, the winner today is those who controls the biggest network/bot-farms, that is harmful for freedom of expression, it is easy/fast to claim stuff, but it usually takes many hours to prove that something is false, during this time it is easy to flood with many new claims, people usually has limited time to research claims and ordinary people are usually too lazy to look up stuff, that makes a big imbalance to the discussion, there is also many more ways harmful players gets the upper hand against good players online. Doing nothing at this point is harmful to freedom of expression, but what Sweden is doing about it can only time tell if it is good or bad, but at least they see there is a problem that needs to be solved.

errantmind 5y ago
Are these bot farms really all that much of a problem? As in, do we have a very clear grasp of the real magnitude of the problem? > Doing nothing at this point is harmful to freedom of expression This seems like Newspeak to me. Stifling freedom of expression in the name of freedom of expression is contradictory if it is abused as powers of this type always are.
- XyC0 5y ago
  It is is a problem today, and it is a problem that is growing, censoring is not going to stop it, I feel that today that it is the private sector that do most censoring, censoring by states/countries in the western world seems a "small" problem, that is more transparent what they censor, as opposed to corporate censoring by the big players in the social media, that mostly is driven by money, I feel that there still is too many "boomers" in politics that is too naive/uneducated about how internet works, I think that only when younger generations takes over in politics as they more so will know the harsh truth that censoring on the internet only hurt the good players.

by XyC0 5y ago

errantmind 5y ago

Are these bot farms really all that much of a problem? As in, do we have a very clear grasp of the real magnitude of the problem? > Doing nothing at this point is harmful to freedom of expression This seems like Newspeak to me. Stifling freedom of expression in the name of freedom of expression is contradictory if it is abused as powers of this type always are.

XyC0 5y ago
It is is a problem today, and it is a problem that is growing, censoring is not going to stop it, I feel that today that it is the private sector that do most censoring, censoring by states/countries in the western world seems a "small" problem, that is more transparent what they censor, as opposed to corporate censoring by the big players in the social media, that mostly is driven by money, I feel that there still is too many "boomers" in politics that is too naive/uneducated about how internet works, I think that only when younger generations takes over in politics as they more so will know the harsh truth that censoring on the internet only hurt the good players.