Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by gdulli on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:25PM
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You're exactly right that we don't have a single important principle we need to protect, we have a complex tapestry of many that we need to balance.
Total censorship with total security isn't the answer. Total freedom with the total loss of truth is also not the answer. As anyone should expect, the ideal is not at either extreme.
Is it messy trying to sort it out, will mistakes get made, will some decisions make some people unhappy? Yes. But it's where we're at. It's the price we pay for living in a society that's nurtured fraud and money-driven nihilism for so long.
Total censorship with total security isn't the answer. Total freedom with the total loss of truth is also not the answer. As anyone should expect, the ideal is not at either extreme.
Is it messy trying to sort it out, will mistakes get made, will some decisions make some people unhappy? Yes. But it's where we're at. It's the price we pay for living in a society that's nurtured fraud and money-driven nihilism for so long.