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except at the moment we're dealing with highly organized paid misinformation campaigns and widespread propaganda under the guise of free speech. This will not be popular on Hn but in my opinion holding users and platforms responsible for the messages they distribute to millions is the inevitable evolution and future of social media, society has demonstrated the inability to responsibly handle anonymous unchecked mass…

I strongly disagree. There are many ways to combat misinformation that do not involve censorship. There is nothing to applaud about oppression driven government censorship.

Can you list those methods of combating misinformation?

Not trying to be confrontational, just curios to know as I don't know of many and haven't done the research.

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This makes me think of this Reddit meme I saw in the Gaming section, the gist of it: if you mentioned some specific chinese massacre in a game with chinese players, they would all leave the game.

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that's interesting. no Winnie the Pooh ?

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post #112

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动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xin…

that's interesting. no Winnie the Pooh ?

It's at the end?

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Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I have posted and do frequently see "unsubstantive" comments, but somehow the mere connotation of gender is a flag. From a historical perspective, such a question in even its simplest form is entirely valid given the nature of gender roles in societies. Are/were conspiring women's groups more or less feared than men's? I don't know myself, and my comment was sincere in that regard.

It is my understanding that, in the classical world, conspiring women's groups were viewed with suspicion by men in general, but not viewed as a threat to the government.

The concept of a women's conspiracy was familiar. Lysistrata involves all the women of Athens conspiring to end the Peloponnesian war by calling a general sex strike.

Re: Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

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This has already been happening in India under the current govt Any Anti PM post gets the Whatsapp admin arrested under National Security Act! Of course, there must be some stupid party supporter who probably had to file a case or something. This will be worse as it'll be automatic as China MITM's everything

Pretty interesting comment. Let me see a reputable source which backs up 'anti pm message arrest under national security act'. I googled those and found just one arrest in a state which said > Asked why Shinde had been suspended, Sharma said, “He has not been suspended just for the message. In the past, too, complaints were received against him for favouring certain political party person and showing political inclin…

You seem to have taken only one source

Google "whatsapp admins arrested Modi"

First link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news/wha...

Tdlr; Karnataka WhatsApp grp asmin arrested for morphed photo of the PM

Re: Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

#117

This has already been happening in India under the current govt Any Anti PM post gets the Whatsapp admin arrested under National Security Act! Of course, there must be some stupid party supporter who probably had to file a case or something. This will be worse as it'll be automatic as China MITM's everything

This is false statement without no supporting source. This is the problem with social media. Someone posts fake news/propaganda and everyone starts believing or starts forwarding (whatsapp), which is causing Govts to take certain action against them/regulate them

If you keep your bias aside and read actual news rather than propaganda TV channels maybe you'll know what really happened

And what about BJP IT cell spreading edited photos and videos? Never heard a single BJP person getting arrested

Source:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news/wha...

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#118

This has already been happening in India under the current govt Any Anti PM post gets the Whatsapp admin arrested under National Security Act! Of course, there must be some stupid party supporter who probably had to file a case or something. This will be worse as it'll be automatic as China MITM's everything

Any reputable sourcee on this?

Google "Whatsapp admin arrested Modi"

One source:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news/wha...

Re: Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

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This has already been happening in India under the current govt Any Anti PM post gets the Whatsapp admin arrested under National Security Act! Of course, there must be some stupid party supporter who probably had to file a case or something. This will be worse as it'll be automatic as China MITM's everything

Forget about PM, Even state leaders are abusing this and getting opposition sympathizers arrested in India for a while. This abuse is most common in State of Andhra Pradesh (Whose chief minister claims he invested IT and claims to have influenced Satya Nadella enter into software :) ). 1. https://www.mirchi9.com/politics/one-case-abuse-ysrcp-social... 2. Another Arrest Video in local language (telugu): https://www.yo…

Yeah

One man sets trend, it blows up

Re: Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

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I strongly disagree. There are many ways to combat misinformation that do not involve censorship. There is nothing to applaud about oppression driven government censorship.

Can you list those methods of combating misinformation? Not trying to be confrontational, just curios to know as I don't know of many and haven't done the research.

Answering for GP:

1. Education (how to form solid arguments and how to view topics from multiple sides)

2. Plurifomity. By combining people from different social-economic groups. Basically an anti divide and conquer which state sponsored media have driven us towards.

3. Acceptance. Everyone picks their fruits of freedom of speech. Just because the fruits of one are the pains of others does not mean we should throw the baby away with the bath water.

4. New policy and law. The anti-vac movement indicates the necessity of new laws and policies. Perhaps vaccines should be mandatory. Perhaps we should let the anti-vaccers pay for the damages.

5. Work on the public perception of that which is embattled. In this case of anti-vac it is science as a whole.

In my opinion we should do loads and loads more of #2, but it seems everyone and everything is in its own filter bubble. We need much more social cohesion.

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