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Free speech != free brainwashing at scale. I can today start for pennies an ad and bot campaign targeting 100s of millions of people claiming that the earth is
by whatever1 4y ago
Free speech != free brainwashing at scale.
I can today start for pennies an ad and bot campaign targeting 100s of millions of people claiming that the earth is square and that n0tth3dro1ds is on the payroll from the establishment to claim otherwise.
I must have the right to say whatever bs I want. But I don't think that I can demand the right to have a powerful platform to distribute my nonsense.
- zmgsabst 4y agoHow is that different than ads in a newspaper? …or on radio? …or on television? — all of which have been used by elites to spread misinformation. Why is the solution censorship rather than better analysis and consensus mechanisms? I think you’re ignoring the second-order effects of mass censorship eg, the Thailand study [1] suggests vaccine censorship and failure to address concerns may have been a catastrophic mistake. We need to seek consensus through discussion and debate — to avoid lying to ourselves and thus engaging in horrors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekTR0w2M9-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekTR0w2M9-U
- Arainach 4y agoAll of those have a higher financial bar to entry and have never been considered free speech. Publishing/distribution companies have rejected ads in the newspaper/super bowl/radio all the time for as long as those forms have existed.
- zmgsabst 4y agoYes — the only difference between your example and those is that ad networks democratize information, rather than spreading misinformation being an elite privilege. How is that worse than Yellow Journalism?
- raxxorraxor 4y agoThe largest source of propaganda in the English speaking western world is the US. True or false?