Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
by pcmaffey on Sunday August 09, 2020 @08:31PM
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Cancel culture is #2.
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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
by tristor on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:30PM
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Cancel culture probably should be #2, it's debatable if it even scratches the surface of achieving #2. It seems cancel culture is not interested in people being dishonest, or spreading misinformation intentionally and maliciously, it's more concerned with enforcing new social mores against dredged up old statements/actions. That could be a good thing, in and of itself, but it doesn't help solve the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
by blaser-waffle on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:21AM
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> That could be a good thing, in and of itself, but it doesn't help solve the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.
At this point it's been weaponized, and has about as much in common with actual justice as it does with a 1984-style "2 minutes of hate".