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Censorship is a tool to combat misinformation. It's taking a sword to the surgery room where no scalpel has been invented yet. We need better tools to combat
by altruios 1y ago
Censorship is a tool to combat misinformation.
It's taking a sword to the surgery room where no scalpel has been invented yet.
We need better tools to combat dis/mis-information.
I wish I knew what that tool was.
Maybe 'inoculating information' that's specifically stickier than the dis/mis-info?
- breadwinner 1y agoEasy solution: Repeal Section 230. Social media platforms in the United States rely heavily on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides them immunity from liability for most user-generated content.
- DangitBobby 1y agoThis would cause widespread censorship of anything remotely controversial, including the truth. We'd be in a "censor first, ask questions later" society. Somehow that doesn't seem healthy either.
- breadwinner 1y agoHave you visited nytimes.com in recent months? Just this morning the top headline was about the lies Trump told at the UN. That's pretty controversial - the newspaper of record calling the sitting president a liar. That's not allowed in many or most countries, but it is allowed in the US. And Trump is suing New York Times for $15 billion, for defamation. That didn't intimidate NYT. They are willing to stand behind the articles they publish. If you can't stand behind what you publish, don't publish them.
- DangitBobby 1y agoPublishing your own story is not the same thing.