Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
by guscost on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:51AM
(#26046852)
The problem happens when you start picking and choosing your preferred set of facts, as you are doing here. “What we label disinformation is always X, what we label dissent is always Y.”
Many of what you would probably call “facts” I would call “beliefs held by a critical mass of connected people.”
However upset you are about it, there is an enormous counterculture that disagrees with you about the facts, and no amount of rhetoric will ever bully these people into submission.
I find myself necessarily allied with that counterculture, and you can go ahead and call me names like “flat-earther” all you want, it will not make a difference.
Many of what you would probably call “facts” I would call “beliefs held by a critical mass of connected people.”
However upset you are about it, there is an enormous counterculture that disagrees with you about the facts, and no amount of rhetoric will ever bully these people into submission.
I find myself necessarily allied with that counterculture, and you can go ahead and call me names like “flat-earther” all you want, it will not make a difference.