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Originally Posted by Azure
So I was actually curious how people would justify what I thought most would call stupid legislation, then I realized that as with most things the Liberals do these days, there is really not justification that makes sense, so the usual suspects are now just literally making up the dumbest excuses possible instead.
Is that what it is? Addressing fake news? We've now removed the fake news? We are deplatforming multi billion dollar companies? lol.
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Who here is a liberal?
You didn't understand what I wrote at all, I am going to try and dumb it down for you:
- Social Media companies have been asked to crack down on foreign provacteurs using their platforms to promote misleading news
- Social media companies claim they are doing this, while actually achieving virtually nothing
- new solution needed: perhaps we remove ALL valid news from these sources. Then you can say that if you got news from facebook, it's wrong, with confidence. This may not convince dolts who are already sucked into the sticky trap, but is likely to instill this message into future generations of news readers.
There's no deplatforming multi billion dollar companies. Instead, you purposely remove the valid news outlets from them and can continue confidentially saying that only "fake" news, or whatever your preferred term, can be present there. So check another source (at least 1) when you see something on one of these sites.
What other solution is there? We've pretty much proven that at least 50% of society is too stupid to actually discern between news sources. The government can't abide the constant erosion of democracy that promotion of fake news causes. And as you've so readily identified, the government is unable to directly control the corporations or force them to self monitor in meaningful and useful ways. So what else could be done?
Also, get your news from somewhere better. Navigate to actual news websites. How embarrassing for you to admit that publicly.