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And remember: the problem isn't "free speech", and never was. "Disinformation is a side effect of free speech" is a lie that the polluters want you to believe. The actual problems are the delivery mechanisms and those that exploit them.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1416939576317267971?s=19 …
"we can't fight disinformation because it would be censorship" is roughly on par with "we can't do anything about deadly pollution because it would interfere with freedom of entreprise" as a bad take.
And yet, as recognizably bad as the polluter/enterprise take is… it's had many a loud "freedom-loving" think tank trotting it out every year since that famous socialist Richard Nixon created the EPA.
We can fight disinformation, but we're dealing with people whose *general* distrust is well-founded, even if their *specific* distrust in this situation is not.https://twitter.com/WorldImagining/status/1426193539365474309 …
It's comparatively easy to agree on what counts as pollution. It's hard to agree on what counts as misinfo. YouTube's current policy is currently "no disagreeing with the CDC", but present CDC itself disagrees with past CDC.
I'm glad the CDC updates its public guidance as it learns more, but debate in the public square is an important part of the societal learning process, and YouTube is part of the public square now.
Some information is more useful to predict the world than others, even if “scientific” is not a “yes/no” property of information.
Pollution seems much easier to outlaw, so what specific option do you propose?
I have a theory that too many connections in society is analogous to too many synapses in the brain. The over connectionism lets counter productive signals propagate and grow. There are benefits to having some throttling of how quickly and broadly information spreads.
Took the vaccine & am happy I took it. This does NOT preclude me from a real risk where a few years from now we find the vaccine caused some bad side effects that are not yet discovered. There are no guarantees in life, this is the hard part: Mass communication of complex truths.
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