Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by bufferoverflow on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:40AM
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You don't hate the idea of censorship. You openly support it.
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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by owlbynight on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:06AM
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I don't believe that censorship from a 10,000 foot view is a binary state. You're thinking that I support redaction, I suspect; probably because it's hard to represent my beliefs in a few lines of text.
My view is that attempting to convert facts -- delivered by the scientific method -- to fiction by way of purposeful misinformation is a more corrosive form of censorship than showing the door to a comparatively miniscule number of who-knows-whos seeking to corrupt our agreed upon truths for their own benefit.
Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by bufferoverflow on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:51AM
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> My view is that attempting to convert facts -- delivered by the scientific method -- to fiction by way of purposeful misinformation is a more corrosive form of censorship
Then you simply don't know what the word censorship means.
Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by lr4444lr on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:31AM
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Disallowing certain information be shared, excepting libel/slander/fraud/privacy invasion/classified data and other private data, is censorship. The onus is on you to prove the non-binary nature of a very ordinary concept.
Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by owlbynight on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:41PM
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You happen across a skyscraper with a politically charged message on its façade that you disagree with.
You can either:
A) Paint over it.
B) Surround the entire space around the message with hundreds of other messages -- lies -- in the same style and color, designed to sway people to an opposing ideology.
The same effect has been achieved in both scenarios. Which is more insidious?