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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by munk-a on Thursday July 29, 2021 @08:17PM (#28003092)
Free speech issues are never simple - but their solutions is never found in the extremes. We've already, as a society, compromised free speech to make exceptions for discriminatory speech and violent destabilizing speech - we're already compromising how available all information is and it's necessary to have a functioning society.

Right now the US, specifically you guys - most of the rest of the world is handling this better - has a huge issue with false information around vaccine efficacy and dangers. This issue must be resolved if you want to be included in an open world once again - some level of censorship is going to be required.

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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by 13years on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:11PM (#28004039)
> we're already compromising how available all information is and it's necessary to have a functioning society

I would call that a functioning prison. Not a society.

Freedom is extremism in a world of tyranny

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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by 13years on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:22PM (#28004090)
> has a huge issue with false information around vaccine efficacy and dangers

It is fascinating your viewpoint here, as the false information identified in the US is true information elsewhere. The reason for this is precisely the censorship and information control.

Reasonable censorship is an oxymoron

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Re:Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “Fals... by munk-a on Friday July 30, 2021 @02:42PM (#28010941)
This is a case of an algorithm doing stupid stuff and misclassifying things - it's also perfectly fair to criticize whether FB should actually control the classification algorithm for this particular type of statement. A misbehaving algorithm doesn't prove the lack of a system though - it just proves that the current one is broken.
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