Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
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#2This issue is so complicated.
Yellow journalism existed in the 1920s. It's nothing new. There will always be people that want to consume these materials and believe them.
The alarming thing are the calls for censorship.
Look at how bad the media and platforms have been about Covid. Early advice on masking, lab leak, adipose inflammation, and other fairly innocuous lines of research were censored. Imagine centrally purging such discussions.
When you censor, it isn't just the thoughts you dislike. Soon they'll censor women's health issues.
Censorship is a threat to democracy.
Re: Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
#3Just to make sure I understand this — the argument is that in order to combat authoritarianism, Silicon Valley companies should censor more content?
Re: Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
#4This issue is so complicated. Yellow journalism existed in the 1920s. It's nothing new. There will always be people that want to consume these materials and believe them. The alarming thing are the calls for censorship. Look at how bad the media and platforms have been about Covid. Early advice on masking, lab leak, adipose inflammation, and other fairly innocuous lines of research were censored. Imagine centrally pu…
> Soon they'll censor women's health issues.
Surely you mean "people who menstruate"
Re: Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
#5If they were going to give their award to a truly deserving recipient it would have been the tortured and imprisoned journalist Julian Assange who is an advocate of free speech and an independent media and voices. Instead they gave the awards deliberately to censorship advocates. It's the journalistic equivalent of giving war criminals and killers of children Nobel Peace Prizes like Kissinger and Obama.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctors-without-borders-bombi...
Re: Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
#6Aren't governments (especially Germany and Australia for what they are doing at the moment) way more scarier than big tech? I am not scared of Google or Facebook at all. I am, however, scared of governments. Especially seeing how the pandemic was handled and how little resistance the handling got from the citizens.
Re: Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
#7Aren't governments (especially Germany and Australia for what they are doing at the moment) way more scarier than big tech? I am not scared of Google or Facebook at all. I am, however, scared of governments. Especially seeing how the pandemic was handled and how little resistance the handling got from the citizens.
I agree. Facebook can try to show me targeted ads, but that's pretty benign compared to what my government can do to me with absolutely zero recourse.
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#8If they were going to give their award to a truly deserving recipient it would have been the tortured and imprisoned journalist Julian Assange who is an advocate of free speech and an independent media and voices. Instead they gave the awards deliberately to censorship advocates. It's the journalistic equivalent of giving war criminals and killers of children Nobel Peace Prizes like Kissinger and Obama. https://www.h…
That would be impossible. Can you imagine: United States imprisons Nobel prize laureate.
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#9Just to make sure I understand this — the argument is that in order to combat authoritarianism, Silicon Valley companies should censor more content?
Correct. I am absolutely done with this level of doublespeak.
Re: Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
#10That was the same "authoritarianism" that saved us from a violent insurrection and another Donald Trump presidency.