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Senators Warren and Graham Want to Create New Online Speech Police Commission

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After looking briefly at some of the proposals on Warren and Graham's plan, two thoughts came two mind:

* The road to hell is paved with good intentions -- "we must regulate content for the good of society."

* If Warren and Graham ever read Orwell, evidently they must have misunderstood him.

They understand it perfectly well. They’re part of the Party in the book. They get to tell people like Winston what to censor and change.

Your mistake is assuming that a power hungry politician is operating under good intentions.

How does the bill let Warren and Graham say what to censor and change? The bill says that social media companies have to clearly explain their moderation policies and disallows them from using algorithms to hurt their users. There are problems with the bill, but none of the problems have anything to do with telling people what to censor.

Not them specifically, but those who are really behind the bill.

This is just another attempt at the Ministry of Truth they so desperately want.

They called it the “Disinformation Governance Board” last time they tried this…

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-bidens-disinformation-board-lik...

There was no last time they tried this. The DGB does something entirely different from what this bill does. It watches over the government, while this bill says that private companies must state their rules clearly.

Controlling content takes many forms.

Like the V-Chip!

The main prob is info overload.

Even the spammers will say they have to up their spam volumes every day to get fewer and fewer clicks. But the good news for them is cost to constantly broadast has fallen to near 0. Youtube , Insta, FB (or even HN) wont tell you less than 1-5% of content generated is actually consummed. That stat comes from economists studying the effeciency of the info economy.

If you hand everyone a radio station and dont restrict spectrum use and everyone starts broadcasting 24*7 what happens? Thanks to that probpem we get Claude Shannon and rules of Spectrum use.

But we havent found a Shannon's theory of information yet or spectrum sharing rules, when it comes to internet broadcasting.

So we see the same issues people had when the age of wireless broadcasting began. They too responded by providing solutions to evrything under the sun other than info overload. Without Shannon & Co showing up god knows how long it would havd taken to solve the issue.

That sounds double plus ungood.

The world’s leaders continue to treat 1984 like it’s an instruction manual. Can’t let the proles read anything that would cause wrong think.

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