Re:Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t launch in time to overse...
by bryan0 on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:31PM
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I agree that censorship is likely not the way to achieve this, but the current social media model propagates the most absurd garbage exponentially while science / reality is left behind because of "low engagement". I feel there must be some way to address this without censorship.
Sunlight is always the best disinfectant. Censorship never works. Indeed, it gives BS the mystical aura of “taboo” - “well if they are trying to suppress it, it must be for a reason”.
Personally if there are people peddling actual whackadoodle stuff I’d rather it be in the open so I can act appropriately.
And I think that’s the core problem - everyone is concerned about everything but “I”. For some reason our society seems to be pivoting from focusing on individual responsibility to wanting to police everyone but themselves. This is the path to destruction/tyranny.
The same people who (rightly) derided the moral majority busybodies from the 80’s now think they have the moral majority to do the same. It never ceases to amaze me.