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> misinformation should be censored. This is such a fallacy. When the ones in power don't allign with your view, your view will be "missinformation". The Viet
by rightbyte 3y ago
> misinformation should be censored.
This is such a fallacy. When the ones in power don't allign with your view, your view will be "missinformation".
The Vietnam war, Iraq war all got started on made up missinformation. Guess what kind of "missinformation" any laws about it would target?
- boston_clone 3y agoHow is it a fallacy? I mean misinformation by definition; you’re correct that power structures may distort truth to achieve an objective, and that’s not good - that’s the prima facie misinformation I’m talking about here. I agree it would have been better if news outlets like the NYT didn’t regurgitate things like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as factual, but that will happen when the intelligence community is embedded at said news organizations.
- rightbyte 3y agoThe fallacy is that there will be no objective classification of what is considered misinformation. Rather, it will be arbitrary. So you can't censor misinformation. You will censor information.
- boston_clone 3y agoAs someone who professionally dealt in mis- and dis-information, I strongly disagree. It sounds as though you’re bending the definition to your own dystopian ideas.