Google and Facebook Have Failed Us

Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by xvilka on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:39PM (#15389713)

It was like this in the time of every morning, midday and evening newspaper as well. Still not a reason to introduce, moreover to actively encourage censorship. While this particular case may be true, those in power will just use this precedent as an example, more and more. It is like a tiny hole in water barrier, at first it is small, then it will grow larger as some people would want to justify more "filtering", more and more, until the water will destroy any barrier, and full featured censorship will come. This is already a case, but still can probably repaired back, we will see.

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Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by intended on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:04AM (#15391793)

This is the old school moderator answer from back in the day when the net was young.

I.E - the old school binary censorship "block/ do not block" - let people decide

The update to this is that censorship is ALREADY happening without explicit actions by parties which want to do right.

The strategy is to saturate the pipe.

After time on the net, the concept of signal vs noise has been advanced enough that we can now just override the signal, by pushing enough noise.

You are talking about small holes, while you are already surrounded by a deluge.

Once twitter and facebook took off, this was a done deal.

The issue is frankly one of communication strategies (and not even meta-communication, this is from propaganda playbooks).

With enough automation, its possible to saturate the pipe.

Humans are built with limitations, for example short term memmory, suited for 5-7 "objects".

You don't need to resort to explicit censorship anymore.

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