Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac...
by notahacker on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:40AM
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I mean, I was replying to someone who defined their failure explicitly in terms of it pissing off both sides. Which was always going to happen, unless they unequivocally took one side.
But I have absolutely no doubt that whatever you consider to be 'fair and unbiased' others will regard as unfair, unbalanced and unpleasant.
Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac...
by fsociety on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:43AM
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In today’s political landscape, being unbiased in content moderation will anger both sides because of the intense polarization that is occurring.
Then if you go the way of Reddit you will please one side and make the other even more angry.
I think the problem is that we see what is happening in the US with poverty and the middle class, but instead we focus on tribalism.
Not sure what the solution is here.
Re:Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Fac...
by mancerayder on Sunday November 15, 2020 @05:24PM
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I tend to have a similar mindset - I have an allergy to groupthink, and when I see groups of people saying false things, even if I generally normally agree with the spirit of the group, I have to at least 'fact check' with a response. But in this strange new bifurcated reality, you get pinned as 'Other' as in, I must be the 'Other side' and thus subject to to some sort of retaliation.
I don't get 'banned' but I get downvoted - as I did on this thread with no real explanation.
I have absolutely no problem with "Fact checking" because at least it shows the original thing. I have a big problem with shadow banning, deleting and outright banning. The latter is censorship.
Our society is fractured. There is so much hate and whining online. So much righteousness and loathing. And big tech has only amplified the problem. At times they even fan the flames, what with dubious fact checkers and their “hate speech” bans.
I can’t even go on Reddit anymore. I find myself disagreeing with absolutely everyone now that the dissenting opinions have been pushed out and banned.
And it’s only getting worse.