Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by etripe on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:59AM
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Can't both things be true simultaneously?
a. there is objective truth
b. it's not a good thing for billionaires to determine what is censored
To me, there isn't an inherent conflict.
I think we (the collective) keep dancing around the issue. Essentially, perhaps it is time for advertising agencies and corporate users of social media to be regulated like news publishers. At least there, there's some expectation that they don't misrepresent facts. One could argue news regulation is also on the decline.
The next step is asking ourselves whether social media made everyone a "journalist" of sorts, and how that should be regulated. After all, taking on corporate entities alone wouldn't have stopped QAnon.
a. there is objective truth
b. it's not a good thing for billionaires to determine what is censored
To me, there isn't an inherent conflict.
I think we (the collective) keep dancing around the issue. Essentially, perhaps it is time for advertising agencies and corporate users of social media to be regulated like news publishers. At least there, there's some expectation that they don't misrepresent facts. One could argue news regulation is also on the decline.
The next step is asking ourselves whether social media made everyone a "journalist" of sorts, and how that should be regulated. After all, taking on corporate entities alone wouldn't have stopped QAnon.