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.
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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...]