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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by AndrewBissell on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:10AM (#26047012)
Amazing how we have these stark examples of the obvious dangers of aggressive moderation to enforce a party line (sorry, I mean "to combat disinformation") and it just doesn't seem to register at all. I'll bet it wouldn't even be hard to find people who say that banning mask advocacy one week and mask skepticism the next was the correct thing to do "because the available information changed."
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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by username90 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:17AM (#26047063)
The fun thing is that if you have biased moderation removing lies from one side it means that almost all lies people will see is from the other side. To me it seems obvious that this would cause people to distrust that side, since in their feed almost all liars comes from that side.

So really I don't think that this kind of moderation helps.

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Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent by choward on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:49PM (#26050300)
Right. When I know censorship is occurring it's harder for me to believe things.
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