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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Replying to @SilvrdSpin
"accurate" doesn't have to mean "raw" you can't present without interpretation anyway, but the difference between striving for accuracy (which is very little to do with striving for balance or objectivity) and striving for result is pretty dramatic
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Replying to @chaosprime @SilvrdSpin
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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Replying to @asimurgari @SilvrdSpin
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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How about *timing* an information release (or just making it seem as boring as possible) to minimize notice?
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timing manipulation seems not exactly praiseworthy but at least it's being released making it seem as boring as possible easily gets back into distorting it
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