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by pawy 3144 days ago
Do you realise what Chaos you are bringing up on us ?

Internet has always been full of shit. It's up to us to educate and teach people who are weak to this kind of behaviour.

Black List websites = Censorship.

Internet is not a product, it's our freedom.

To all people who try to "regulate" this, piss off.

3 comments

I'm torn on this issue. On one hand american-style free speech where you can basically say anything you want as long as you don't target a specific individual is tempting. On the other hand you don't have to look very far online to find groups of people online who get in too deep into a web of lies, disinformation and confirmation bias that leads to some extremism with real world consequences.

This is especially a problem since it's very hard to limit access for the underage population who's a lot more prone to being influenced by extremist ideologies.

But of course the counterpoint is that this would create an infrastructure which could be abused to manipulate the population. I think there's a compromise to be found here but I don't know where to start.

As opposed to the orderly wold we live in now? I'm honestly done protecting the right to flat out lie and manipulate on the internet.

You may see that as an infringement on your free speech, but your approach to "freedom" is rapidly ending democracy in the free world. Keep in mind that the totalitarian voices you're using free speech to defend, won't show you the same curtesy, once they take over.

Amen.