• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    People will believe whatever they want to believe, you cannot suppress whatever you believe is misinformation. There are lots of things for which there is no apodictic certainty that gets passed of as fact and no one questions it or calls it misinformation.

    Also it’s not that it wasn’t a perfect solution. It’s that it is not a solution at all. It actively made things worse in fact.

    People in the streets say crazier shit every day, are you also gonna stop them from saying it? Fuck that man, the audience is the one that needs to learn to be discerning.

    Fuck outta here with this fuckhead logic.

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      2 months ago

      Pre-Musk Twitter and current X is a good example of what happens when a platform completely drops its policies on misinformation. It is an order of magnitude worse now than it ever was before, and much more harmful to society.

      If we’re worried about far-right idiots crying censorship, then we might as well fold to all their other demands and then the lunatics will truly be running the asylum.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t know that I believe in that sort of paternalistic attitude what I do know is that Google et al have no business dictating what is or isn’t misinformation. It’s a double edged blade.

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          2 months ago

          Breathing bleach, very bright light in veins, horse worm paste to fight covid.

          what I do know is that Google et al have no business dictating what is or isn’t misinformation

          Oh fuck right off.

          This isn’t a grey area “Oh Mike’s car sounds louder so it’s faster” information. There are objectively factual truths at play and these flat earth worm paste eating fuckwits want to play Don’t Look Up in real life.