Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
by DEADMINCE on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:50PM
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Honestly, I kind of think censorship would be a positive thing when applied to people lacking education. Where to draw the line is the issue, but at the least maybe people who didn't finish highschool or get a GED or equivalent shouldn't be exposed to conspiracy theories that they then act on.
Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
by acheong08 on Sunday May 05, 2024 @06:57PM
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What a dystopian idea. I understand the reasoning but that is an extremely slippery slope for the rich to control the poor
Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
by DEADMINCE on Monday May 06, 2024 @08:43AM
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It's more about the educated controlling the dangerously ignorant.
Education doesn't make for a good cutoff.
> We examined the educational backgrounds of 75 terrorists behind some of the most significant recent terrorist attacks against Westerners. We found that a majority of them are college-educated, often in technical subjects like engineering.
> In the four attacks for which the most complete information about the perpetrators' educational levels is available -- the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the 9/11 attacks, and the Bali bombings in 2002 -- 53 percent of the terrorists had either attended college or had received a college degree.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/opinion/the-madrassa-myth...]
In my own industry I commonly hear people talk about self regulation in order to keep governments from interfering. This has benefits, but it also makes the action of the industry a dialog between government and private sector. Voluntarily removing undesired content is technically not censorship ordered by the government, but it is also not completely separated from the wishes of the government.