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by insane_dreamer 531 days ago
> countless examples of them doing mass cancellations calling things lies that we all know ended up being true

really? like what, exactly? please give concrete examples or this is just hot air

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/27/facebook-...

"Facebook lifts ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made (2021)"

It is not known to be true of course, but it always obviously a possibility.

I mean, we can’t be correct retroactively can we?? I dont think all the doctors that came before antibiotics should be blamed for not knowing Germ theory.

IS this a reasonable expectation of fact checking?

I’m very curious now, I actually would love takes on this. I feel we are implying that the standards of fact checking validity weren’t met, but the standards haven’t been stated.

The reason censorship is generally undesirable is because it assumes the person doing the censoring is always correct, and that they're infallible perfect arbiters of truth incapable of letting their political motivations dictate their censorship decisions...which is of course false. They're very often wrong, and always make decisions based on their political leanings, even when it contradicts the evidence.
Sure. But we aren’t sure of a lot of things.

People regularly say “let me know the full facts, even if they aren’t confirmed.”

This is a common claim from people when it comes to medicine or nutrition, for example.

I think you can acknowledge that people have contradictory impulses - because you’ve experienced it.

All reporting on developing situations will be inaccurate, and yet people want it.

So how would you reconcile this? This need for the best effort information and the need for perfect information?

Free Speech has nothing to do with whether information is correct or not. It's only about stopping Tyranny. No one should be allowed to control another person's speech because speech is the most basic form of freedom and if you can remove speech freedom you can remove all other freedoms too.

Removing Freedom of Speech is the first thing Tyrannical gov'ts do to control people. Look at what Trudeau tried to do to Canadians, and look at the UK also. People are now being put in JAIL for being rude online. Luckily conservatives all around the world are fed up and finally fighting back.

” But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.”

That’s from the Abram’s dissent.

Does it resonate with you?

If you're wanting to claim that `Cancel Culture` never happened, then I'm afraid, at this point in history, the burden of proof is on you, not me. lol.
I made no claim.

But the OP did make a claim that "calling things lies that we all know ended up being true"

I challenged that with a request for actual examples. Feel free to link to them.

No one needs proof Cancel Culture was real. Everyone knows at this point. So you can pretend you need proof if you want, but you're not fooling anyone.
Handwaving is not providing examples. Please try again.
You can go to the wikipedia page. You don't need to be spoon-fed.
See, thats not how it works in productive conversations. “Adult” so to speak conversations online, require the person making the claim to provide the evidence.

The act of not providing the evidence, is essentially a sign of not having an argument, and resorting to bluffs in the hope that people will take the emotions as facts.

But thats entirely self defeating - it reduces your argument to one about feels and vibes.

I always find this to be annoying, because I dont think people are so inaccurate.

You may well have evidence, and bringing it up makes the case.

And if you dont find evidence, then you improve your own argument. You end up checking and figuring out what made you hold that position.

It’s just a lost chance. And if people said they dont care to do this, then why the heck did they make the effort? You just lost your peace for no reason.

Suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal by heavy censorship of any post about it on Facebook. For instance.

There's a high probability that heavily influenced the presidential 2020 election outcome.

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/facebook-execs...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-pan...

There was a long period where people were getting banned from Twitter and Meta platforms for posting (true) claims about the Hunter Biden laptop story (which was, of course, extremely politically consequential)

Is that your example? It's not a very good one.

If you read the article you linked to, you find that 1) Twitter blocked tweets about the WP story, not banned users, and 2) they reversed that decision and unblocked the tweets 24 hours later as they realized their mistake.

It took the corporate media (CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, etc) a full 3.5 years to admit the laptop was real. It wasn't just some little thing like you're trying to portray it as. It made the difference in the 2020 election.
People do not care about that laptop. They even voted for Felon to be president. Why is it such strong topic for you?
People finally figured out which party's policies are destroying the country. That's what the election was about.
Yes, people would care that the presidents adult son is pointing a gun at a prostitutes head on video.

Your attempt to minimise this as “people don’t care about a laptop” is either incredibly ignorant of this matter or deliberately misleading framing of the question.

The people saying the laptop doesn't matter are the same ones who believed the MSM story that it was Russian disinfo for 3.5 years.

They won't allow themselves to think it's important because that's an open admission (to themselves and others) of how thoroughly brainwashed they've become by trusting the MSM left-wing perspectives on every issue.

I don’t think anyone thought the laptop wasn’t real though.

It was definitely real, it was mostly seen as a politicized fight.

> I don’t think anyone thought the laptop wasn’t real though.

I heard nominally credible commentators claim the laptop story was a "russian disinformation" campaign at least 50 different times.

Big Tech, Mainstream Media, FBI, the Deep State, and every Democrat politician claimed that laptop was fake for 3.5 years. Sure, lots of them knew it was a lie, but the majority of the actual public was completely hoodwinked, because they hadn't yet realized there was this big left-wing cabal of power conspiring to lie as much as it takes to push the left-wing narratives.
>fake for 3.5 years

Didnt people dismiss it initially, then change tune once it was confirmed? All the liberal sides knew it existed, they were mostly focused on the fact that the prosecution was being incredibly focused, which was out of the norm for how cases like that are typically punished.

The Hunter Biden laptop story had no meaningful political consequences.
Yeah other than the minor thing of swinging an election. lol.
peaceful protests?