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Freedom of speech should be a civil right and I hope that’s the result of this. No entity should be allowed to censor speech.
So hacker news shouldn't be allowed to remove spam comments?
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Freedom of speech should be a civil right and I hope that’s the result of this. No entity should be allowed to censor speech.
So you can say whatever you want at your job without any repercussion from your employer? Yikes.
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Freedom of speech should be a civil right and I hope that’s the result of this. No entity should be allowed to censor speech.
I agree with you in principle, however in practice this has been hijacked to spread misinformation with potentially deadly results. This is a very nuanced issue IMO and the answers are not trivial.
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Ah ok, when Trump says a negative article about him is "fake news" it's criticism, but when "disinformation" comes out about Biden it's a call for censorship? Am I insane for seeing the dissonance here?
One of them is saying “it’s not true” and one of them is saying “we should stop the public from seeing that”.
In this case, who is saying "we should stop the public from seeing that?" Not Biden. His campaign folks said "it's not true." I'm unaware of any calls from Biden to censor anything. Ever.
Please do correct me if I'm wrong.
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Did Twitter kill hundreds of people with tanks?
"First the neo-Nazis had to text their friends about a new Stormfront post instead of sending it in a Twitter DM, and I said nothing..."
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Eh, I don't think it's going to have the impact you think it will. The major criticism for S230 is that social media companies are rampant with fake news, and not doing enough to combat misinformation. If anything, it gives FB and Twitter a defense against an accusation of spreading political misinformation.
Was the NY Post article actually filled with disinformation? If the roles were reversed and a similar story came out about Trump and his son, would Twitter and Facebook have taken it down as part of a misinformation campaign?
Since the roles are not reversed, they're working together to bury it and trying to pretend it doesn't exist, because they're con-artists and fake journalists completely in bed with the Democrats and very willing to conspire to throw an election and commit election interference.
The barely existent election interference by the Russians is trivial compared to what big tech is doing out in the open (hell, they're practically bragging about it at this point it's so brazen).
Several executives at big tech need to be put in prison for election interference. Start with Dorsey.
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> possibly faked or hacked emails What gives you the impression that this is the case? Hunter Biden's receipts from the computer repair shop are public for this too. I think bias might be clouding your judgement. EDIT: Because HN isn't even allowing me to reply to the comment by user heartbreak, I will just edit this here: He was NOT impeached for bribing Ukraine into fabricating exactly this sort of story. He was im…
> Hunter Biden's receipts from the computer repair shop are public for this too. Where? I didn’t see those. How does he have public receipts for something he never paid for? Edit: Never mind. I saw it. It’s a quote, not a receipt. I just can’t believe someone would take a laptop to a random, low quality based on the price, repair shop for data recovery like that. “Hi. Can you get my sex tape, crack smoking video, and…
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I see ridiculous (even virulent) hot takes blasted out by overwhelmingly left-leaning major media orgs with near zero consequences on twitter and facebook. Half the time, this stuff proves to be incomplete - borderline maliciously so - or even factually incorrect, within days. I'm still hearing daily from people who think Breonna Taylor was shot in her sleep. Regardless of how you lean politically, this behavior shou…
Except the Washington Post isn't releasing possibly faked or hacked emails about Breonna Taylor being shot in her sleep three weeks before an election in a blatant attempt to manufacture an October Surprise. Don't try and create false equivalency here.
What makes that less credible than "anonymous sources"?