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US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by schiffern »

glwiththat wrote: post #324
ceteia wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would educating people instead and giving them more options for information, not be better than banning access to information?

If educating people worked there wouldn’t be any obese people, or drunkards, or smokers, druggies, gamblers, people addicted to doomscrolling or video games or ragebait "news" or… Education is as useful as preaching abstinence at horny teenagers instead of providing access to contraceptives

  >If educating people worked there wouldn’t be any [bad stuff]
I think you're confusing "works" and "works perfectly."

Education works. It doesn't work perfectly.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by simianparrot »

NuclearPM wrote: post #231
nomilk wrote: post #94

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It might do that too , but access to information is just so utterly critical, and exponentially moreso in circumstances where government brutally cracks down on it, as we saw in Egypt during the Arab Spring and we're seeing in Iran presently.

Access to information is dangerous when the information is controlled propaganda.

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Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by throwerefg »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #279
nickorlow wrote: post #119

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US can probably use their soft power to influence them not to do that. Also would imagine the US gov could also set up some more censorship resistant access methods.

At this point US has close to zero (if not negative) "soft" power.

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Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by josefrichter »

drnick1 wrote: post #335
amarant wrote: post #168

What content bans does Europe have? /Confused European

Porn (now requires age verification), online libraries, movies, some news websites, sports (because of obscure copyright laws) and countless other things.

I’m in the EU and haven’t encountered any of these, except the copyright restrictions - which is really a different matter.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by astahlx »

In the end, facts are useless. You belief what you think your social bubble, and in particular, the group you think you belong to, is thinking. And many people do not speak up. Mostly those with strong (often selfish) interests speak up, and often in a manipulative way. Having narcissist or sociopaths as leader can indeed be a bad thing. Some sort of media control is good, to protect core values, to protect the law against mass manipulation.

Re: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

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Post by shevy-java »

ffsm8 wrote: post #297
ceteia wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would educating people instead and giving them more options for information, not be better than banning access to information?

Intuitively yes, but it's possible that this is one of our biases speaking From my memory (might be mistaken) there have been attempts to somewhat study this via polls etc, and determined that coverage via propaganda (specifically Fox News) is less helpful then randomly guessing what actually happened... But ymmv, social studies are always hard to trust, because it's borderline impossible to prove cause and effect

People need to decide on their own, so I am against censorship.
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