Re:Mark Zuckerberg is on the wrong side of history
by beagle3 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:03AM
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This rings true about history and philosophy in my experience - but with politics, every week the subject and narrative are different, and by the time you’ve resolved this week’s fake news in 6 months time, there have been 20 more lies and no one cares about that one thing from 6 months ago.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg is on the wrong side of history
by CryptoPunk on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:49AM
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Even granting your argument, the dangers of giving any political faction the power to censor political speech that threatens their grip on power will far outweigh the danger of not being able to use censorship to filter misinformation in my estimation.
If countering political misinformation with political information is hard, then public-minded individuals can increase their efforts 5 fold, to make up for the additional difficulty.
This, to me, seems far less costly than the risk-adjusted cost of introducing a new norm of society being more tolerant of censorship.