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There is great value in analyzing propaganda if you know it's propaganda. The danger comes in the fact that the majority of people can't distinguish actual repo
by hackyhacky 5y ago
There is great value in analyzing propaganda if you know it's propaganda. The danger comes in the fact that the majority of people can't distinguish actual reporting from disinformation. That's why it gets down-ranked.
- fuckcensorship 5y agoYou are correct. However, the solution should be better education, not censorship.
- diputsmonro 5y agoIf DDG can overhaul the worldwide education system, I'm sure we'd all be in favor of that. But since the best solution is impossible, at least right now, a half measure like this seems reasonable to offer some amount of protection. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We should do what we can now, and keep pushing for better solutions. Holding out for perfection does nothing to help people now, or possibly ever, depending on your definition of "perfect".
- hackyhacky 5y agoEducate who and how? What concrete steps should be taken right now instead of downranking manipulative information warfare?
- therein 5y ago
- tonguez 5y agothe problem is the stuff getting downranked is going to be the real information. the powerful people who control everything, including the news, are going to push propaganda and censor in whatever way makes themselves richer at the expense of everybody else, which is how they got to be in that position in the first place
- hackyhacky 5y agoAre you claiming that the search results currently being downranked, i.e. Russian propaganda, is the "real information?" If so, who is that making richer?