Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
by jacquesm on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:06AM
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> if it is run by Democrats based with only a partisan criteria
I could follow you right up to there.
Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
by roenxi on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:54PM
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The Democrats are calling on the government to "fight disinformation" [0]. War on/Struggle against/campaign to stop [X] style constructs are pretty much always political construct (even literal wars). Political groups will fail to sift fact from fiction without objective tests.
The Democrats have nominal control of Congress and the presidency. It is extremely fair to point out that - as the article in fact does - that they don't have an objective criteria to seriously cut down on disinformation and that if it is a partisan push then there is no way they can identify "disinformation". And that it will probably be political and damaging in the style of the anti-communist manias that swept the US, like McCarthyism.
[0] https://raskin.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-democrat...
So what exactly is your test to work out that this is disinformation, and how do you intend to defend it when I accuse it of being highly subjective? The war on disinformation will have spectacularly bad unintended consequences - far in excess of any successes - if it is run by Democrats based with only a partisan criteria. There needs to be some level of objectivity and observability to the label.