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I'm of the opposite opinion. I think being even more lax than Zuckerberg on psy-ops, hate speech, denialism, racism and misinformation will be quite dangerous t
by Lutger 5y ago
I'm of the opposite opinion. I think being even more lax than Zuckerberg on psy-ops, hate speech, denialism, racism and misinformation will be quite dangerous to society. Some of the necessary conditions of speech itself might collapse, in a way that the very idea of 'speech' will become nearly impossible.
It will be terrible, for the Western democracies anyway - it will likely help Putin and Xi tremendously though.
- whimsicalism 5y ago
- boppo1 5y agoDo you have reliable evidence it wasn't a right-wing fabrication?
- whimsicalism 5y ago? Fabrication? There was no credible evidence ever presented that it was a fabrication or that Russia had anything to do with it. Here is the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-... You are reasoning from your beliefs.
- boppo1 5y agoI'm not reasoning, I'm playing devil's advocate as someone who is laptop-agnostic. A couple posts back in my history you can see I wrote the converse to someone. Also, it's not that the laptop is a right-wing fabrication, but the... uh... existence of material relevance to the election I think? Something about it was dismissed as right-wing misinfo but, again, idk enough about the topic, I'm just trying to see what I can gather from different views now that the dust has settled.
- whimsicalism 5y agoFair enough. If the charge is that it was sequestered by members of the right-wing and then intentionally released right before the election to influence the outcome, then yes that is definitely true. But there were claims that this was a hoax, forged documents, or sourced from Russia. There has never been any evidence backing those claims, AFAIK.