Re:Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to d...
by AnimalMuppet on Saturday August 26, 2023 @10:38AM
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Here's the problem:
1. There is genuine disinformation. Russia, China, and North Korea (at least) have active disinformation organizations, Russia's being the most effective.
2. Disinformation has become weaponized by both US political parties as a way to try to shut down positions they don't agree with. "All the evidence points our way; all the evidence that doesn't is disinformation." And, in fact, as we have come to expect politicians to lie, we should probably come to expect political parties to conduct disinformation campaigns.
I don't want to be on the receiving end of disinformation campaigns. I also don't want people to be able to label anything they don't like as "disinformation", and thereby stop me from seeing it.
I am essentially asking big tech to do the impossible. No matter what they do, they can't do both pieces of what I want.
The internet used to be a place where you could go to find information. Now it's a place where you go to find disinformation. For those of us who loved the old internet, that's an extremely painful change.
1. There is genuine disinformation. Russia, China, and North Korea (at least) have active disinformation organizations, Russia's being the most effective.
2. Disinformation has become weaponized by both US political parties as a way to try to shut down positions they don't agree with. "All the evidence points our way; all the evidence that doesn't is disinformation." And, in fact, as we have come to expect politicians to lie, we should probably come to expect political parties to conduct disinformation campaigns.
I don't want to be on the receiving end of disinformation campaigns. I also don't want people to be able to label anything they don't like as "disinformation", and thereby stop me from seeing it.
I am essentially asking big tech to do the impossible. No matter what they do, they can't do both pieces of what I want.
The internet used to be a place where you could go to find information. Now it's a place where you go to find disinformation. For those of us who loved the old internet, that's an extremely painful change.