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Reading your comment felt like that hearing Anakin saying he knows what's best for the people better than they do. As soon as you start assuming you know more

Reading your comment felt like that hearing Anakin saying he knows what's best for the people better than they do. As soon as you start assuming you know more than the people and that you have a right to censor the information they can access because it's bad for them, you become a tyrant. Am I the only one who finds this rotten? I want to read disinformation, tell me the sky is green I don't care, I can stitch stories together and arrive to a conclusion myself, false things (won't use that "(d/m)isinformation" media clickbait word) don't make sense, real things do, sure there are false things that do sound correct, but trust the people to make the difference, have your experts argue against falsehoods, let the people hear those arguments, if your expert's arguments disprove X or Y the people will not believe it, if the Russian experts disprove your arguments, then they're right and you're the one spreading falsehoods...

SyzygistSix 4y ago
I don't like censorship but I also know that I am not unbiased/intelligent/non-human enough to not fall for disinformation. And so will anyone, if they are honest about it. Not every time but we will fall for it. And foreign operations like that should not have the freedom to be conducted on US soil and in US media. I think labels that say who has determined something is disinformation, produced by whom, and why they have labeled it thus might be a better solution.
- zosima 4y ago
  But you seem to suffer from some kind of delusion that government is somehow less biased and more intelligent, and free of human faults than you? What in all of human history, would make you think that?
  - SyzygistSix 4y ago
    It would not only be the government. It would also involve the media and it would present their case for the labeling. It's not a blanket trust. And it doesn't remove the media, just labels it.

SyzygistSix 4y ago

I don't like censorship but I also know that I am not unbiased/intelligent/non-human enough to not fall for disinformation. And so will anyone, if they are honest about it. Not every time but we will fall for it. And foreign operations like that should not have the freedom to be conducted on US soil and in US media. I think labels that say who has determined something is disinformation, produced by whom, and why they have labeled it thus might be a better solution.

zosima 4y ago
But you seem to suffer from some kind of delusion that government is somehow less biased and more intelligent, and free of human faults than you? What in all of human history, would make you think that?
- SyzygistSix 4y ago
  It would not only be the government. It would also involve the media and it would present their case for the labeling. It's not a blanket trust. And it doesn't remove the media, just labels it.