Censorship is the path that leads to tyranny. Better to have all sides without being muzzled. Today’s truth can be tomorrow’s fake news and vice versa.
Either they are publishers or platforms.
They can always put disclaimers by every “news.”
Either they are publishers or platforms.
They can always put disclaimers by every “news.”
In some cases, it's the village idiot, in a village full of village idiots.
We are not talking about war related strategic information here, so I don't understand your position. I still don't know about any examples. There should be at least some if it is dismissed as necessary.
If the slippery slope were real and the control of information successful, you might still think this.
And misinformation about health issues leads to deaths
To be precise, social media platforms do not censor, but selectively grant certain entities a louder voice at a subsidized cost. Of course, these companies are out of the reach of the checks that the US government is laden with, and this should be managed by regulation or other form of checks.
The majority of the world does not live under healthy democracies. That the west is copying this failed model is concerning.
With respect to social media, it is clear that it is inappropriate and impossible to hold most laypeople accountable for spreading false information, and so it is responsible broadcasting to only amplify these voices to a limited extent.
I think that it is clear to you that I don't support unconditional free broadcast of factual claims in the Internet age, but one where one's reach must be matched by how much they have staked on the correctness of their information, proportional to the severity of the issue they are weighing in on.
The only people in the media fired for the debacle of the Iraq war were the ones who called the lies of the government out.
When we let everyone speak at least the average of all the lies is closer to the truth than when we let only one lie through.
And untethered fake news propaganda leads to world wars and butchery of millions of innocent people. There's a balance to be struck and right now, with unfettered capitalism and no social contract in USA, there's just too many people that wish to abuse news to hurt and even cause death of other people.
What are you referring to here? Wars and butchery have been reliably championed throughout history by regular news propaganda.
E.g. look at Bot Sentinel top 100 trollbots [1].
#1 @BrandonBeckham_ is (from my judgment) a fake twitter account [2]. He poses as a veteran Christian that loves everything Trump. All he posts is pro-Trump stuff & Donald J. Trump retweets him frequently.
This is the stuff that needs moderation for misinformation. But somehow this stuff is just ignored by Big Tech.