Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by chlodwig on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:04PM
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If someone chooses to intentionally reduce a conversation to an "effective/ineffective" dichotomy to deliberately mislead or obscure conversations, then it might be disinformation. Disinformation can consist entirely of factual statements.
Actually, a good case for banning ALL discussion of mask effectiveness on Twitter as being disinformation, since the character limit basically forces turning discussion into simplified dichotomy.
Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by kube-system on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:19PM
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"deliberately" is the key word. Brevity for the sake of expeditiousness or practicality is different than brevity for the sake of deception or ulterior motive.
Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:29PM
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>Brevity for the sake of expeditiousness or practicality is different than brevity for the sake of deception or ulterior motive.
How are you supposed to tell which is which without reading minds?
This simply moves the argument from "accurate vs concise" to "concise for good reasons vs concise for bad reasons"
Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by kube-system on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:09PM
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Because in the same way we can rely on health sciences to explain how masks work, we can rely on political science to tell us how senate elections work. :)
You certainly don’t win senate elections by telling your constituents that they’re wrong. You start with the preconceived views of your constituents and work your way backwards to an argument.
https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/unintendedpregnancy/p...
If we had no other method, then it might be reasonable to call it effective, in comparison to doing nothing. Given that better options exist, it is not very reasonable to call it effective without qualification.
If someone chooses to intentionally reduce a conversation to an "effective/ineffective" dichotomy to deliberately mislead or obscure conversations, then it might be disinformation. Disinformation can consist entirely of factual statements.