the most democratic act possible is providing to the public the most accurate information you can without regard to how its recipients will use it or what conclusions they draw from it what it is when you manipulate information to manipulate its recipients is left as an exercise
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if you're just saying "don't straight up lie to people in order to get them to join your cause" then I'd agree, but I assume you take that as a given and are instead examining edge cases here?
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tbh that doesn't seem to be a given in the current discourse at all, but i'd like the bar a little higher than that, somewhere such that strategic omission because you wouldn't want to convey something that would be Bad for the Masses is contraindicated
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yeah but on any given topic there always a more information than can be communicated at all briefly, so striving for "accuracy" always involves deciding what information is most relevant, and such decisions are themselves political
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yes, this is a legitimate fact which i am extremely tired of being used as a miserable excuse
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“without regard to...what conclusions [its recipients] draw from it” I think the general sense of that sentence prohibits even this, strategically crafting the info blocks so that the recipients’ resulting beliefs will accord with what you believe are the accurate ones.
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dangit all right, nihilism it is then
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