UN council: Nations, stop switching off the internet

Re:UN council: Nations, stop switching off the internet by DasIch on Sunday July 03, 2016 @12:56PM (#12026674)

What is and isn't uninformed bullshitting speech is something a voter should be able to figure out by comparing it with all the different forms of speech they have access to.

If you only have one form of speech because others are not allowed, how is any voter to tell if it's bullshit?

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Re:UN council: Nations, stop switching off the internet by kiba on Sunday July 03, 2016 @01:04PM (#12026707)

What if the state could make the choice of excluding incorrect views from spreading across the population? Would that improve outcome in elections?

Of course, we cross into the treasonous water of the state possibly banning views that it didn't like, rather than simply uninformed views.

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Re:UN council: Nations, stop switching off the internet by DasIch on Sunday July 03, 2016 @01:28PM (#12026813)

Excluding incorrect views is difficult. If you only do it lightly, as is done with the holocaust you don't get very far. If you go further, say what China is doing, you get quite a lot of criticism which can be a problem.

You also risk succumbing to your own biases and excluding information that is correct. If that happens and the truth comes out, which it always does, your state eventually becomes unstable.

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