By this standard, if authoritarians start using “fabricated” to slander opponent claims, we should drop the term.
If they accuse dissidents of “lies”, we should stop talking about their lies. This strategy of constant retreat will just end up with self-censorship, and no gain.https://twitter.com/accessnow/status/1049995044860690432 …
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Politics isn’t an essay contest graded by some external teacher. It’s about power and legitimacy, and fighting for those. Do people think there’s a concept that will magically be immune to misuse by authoritarians? Why bother, let’s all go home, preemptively cede all ground.
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There is no concept that is immune to the authoritarian appropriation, and the only way to defend them is to actually defend them politically.
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i don't think that's a fair reading of how (current iteration of) 'fake news' went from US election glitch to rapidly being appropriated by states wanting to subvert it to clamp down on media freedom. this happened very fast, and we warned about this from day one.
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Warning about it isn't the issue. This constant ceding ground is basically a symptom of how weak dissidents are against authoritarians, and how little most NGOs understand the politics of their own space.
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the same that think removing master/slave term from python fix real slavery ?
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Hi Zeynep, while the tweet is poorly phrased, that's not what the article says at all. It says clearly that state governments are "weaponizing legitimate concerns of misinformation toward speech it finds unfavorable to state leaders," though nothing of the use of the term itself.
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I know, but first, it's a common refrain. Also a common problem: not paying attention to headlines/tweets. Most people only see tweet/headline. I don't know how a group in the "information wars/censorship" space cannot figure this out. (Not singling them out, it's so common).
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