3 ms·
I know that people in general seems to react strongly negative to government censorship, but I can not avoid seeing it through the light of recent trends of pos
by belorn 2y ago
I know that people in general seems to react strongly negative to government censorship, but I can not avoid seeing it through the light of recent trends of post-truth online censorships that blasted the internet during the last decade. Popularity of censorship is something that seems to go in wave, and outside the US there seems to be more acceptance to government censorship as comparative to platform censorship. In smaller countries the distinction becomes a bit blurry if it is the government doing the censorship, or the ISP's doing it voluntarily, or the dominant market platform making the same decision.
In my own industry I commonly hear people talk about self regulation in order to keep governments from interfering. This has benefits, but it also makes the action of the industry a dialog between government and private sector. Voluntarily removing undesired content is technically not censorship ordered by the government, but it is also not completely separated from the wishes of the government.
- DEADMINCE 2y agoHonestly, I kind of think censorship would be a positive thing when applied to people lacking education. Where to draw the line is the issue, but at the least maybe people who didn't finish highschool or get a GED or equivalent shouldn't be exposed to conspiracy theories that they then act on.
- _lvbh 2y agoWhat a dystopian idea. I understand the reasoning but that is an extremely slippery slope for the rich to control the poor
- DEADMINCE 2y agoIt's more about the educated controlling the dangerously ignorant.
- mrkeen 2y agoEducation doesn't make for a good cutoff. > We examined the educational backgrounds of 75 terrorists behind some of the most significant recent terrorist attacks against Westerners. We found that a majority of them are college-educated, often in technical subjects like engineering. > In the four attacks for which the most complete information about the perpetrators' educational levels is available -- the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the 9/11 attacks, and the Bali bombings in 2002 -- 53 percent of the terrorists had either attended college or had received a college degree. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/opinion/the-madrassa-myth.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/opinion/the-madrassa-myth...]
- DEADMINCE 2y agoThere is more to education than college education.