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Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by pjc50 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:34AM (#15391419)
I think at this stage it's like insisting that people filter their own water when there are organisations out there actively dumping toxic waste into it.

It's not just the Internet though, it's organisations like Infowars who are out there claiming that the Vegas shooting was some kind of "false flag", after his previous disinformation on the Sandy Hook incident.

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Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by throwaway4945 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:57AM (#15393307)
I believe your metaphor is falling short. Taken to the opposite extreme, censorship would be giving the people clean water? Or are we about to make claims about "absolute truth" in breaking news?
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Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by pjc50 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:41PM (#15393756)
Absolute truth is hard to come by. Absolute falsehood is all over the place.

Let's not straw man by pretending that the existing system is entirely 100% censorship free, either.

(I don't have a clear proposal and it's a complex problem, but in the worst case - Rwanda - some of the people involved in hate radio were eventually charged with crimes against humanity)

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