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Re:Testimony of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to US Senate by lubesGordi on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:55PM (#15597356)
What's the difference between censoring 'fake news' and making it illegal?

The disinformation issue is deep, and people want to just call some things disinformation and other things truth. It's intellectual laziness. You're not going to get to truth by blindly believing trusted sources. You need to do your own research. And what, you're going to let the CIA decide what is a trusted source? The route this is going is incredibly scary. At the very least people's attitudes should be 'I'll make up my own damn mind, thank you very much!'

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Re:Testimony of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to US Senate by rhcom2 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:57PM (#15597370)
People are now blindly believing any source if it backs up their opinion. You're not going to be able to get primary sources on everything so at some point you will HAVE to trust some source.
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Re:Testimony of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to US Senate by lubesGordi on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:31PM (#15597632)
Well, I call it remaining agnostic. If you can't get a primary source on something political in nature (especially political), then you can't draw conclusions or argue about it.
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