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>you do not know if it is your own citizens talking or some foreign agent with their own vested interest You wouldn't know that if the site was from your own c
by fluoridation 1y ago
>you do not know if it is your own citizens talking or some foreign agent with their own vested interest
You wouldn't know that if the site was from your own country either. Could you be sure your neighbor is not a foreign spy?
>I don't consider regulating social media as "censorship" at all
To clarify, you don't consider it censorship because you believe your government would make it more difficult for foreigners alone to use their speech, and never your own countrymen. You're either delusional or adorably naive.
Inevitably, censorship will get used against you, either to silence you or to silence speech you would want to hear. Anyone who calls for censorship is a useful idiot.
- thisislife2 1y agoI am just restating my faith in my country's democracy to protect my rights, than any private BigTech or foreign government. You, on the other hand, are deliberately ignoring that foreign media platforms have, and are, used for malicious purposes against a state.
- fluoridation 1y agoI'm not ignoring it, I simply don't care. I recognize that misinformation is going to be spread and act accordingly, by fact-checking and suspending judgement. What you want is for a government entity to decide for you which statements are "true" and which are "false" and to be shown only the "true" ones. It's idiotic. Even if the government has your best interest in mind (which it doesn't; at any given time the ruling party is self-interested), outsourcing your critical thinking faculties is not something you should want.