The Arbiters of "Misinformation"
Thank you The Atlantic for stepping out from behond the curtain and showing us what we long suspected; Secretly the left really wants communism and an end to our constitution.
I can’t read the actual article entirely because it has a pay wall but I found it and it does indeed exist:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/
They're not all that secretive about it.
Talk about saying the quiet part out loud!
“Free speech is a disaster”
“Free market doesn’t work”
The words of Communists, Fascists, tyrannical socialists are unmistakably obvious. The ‘author’ needs to move to Venezuela, and quit trying to bring Venezuela here.
“free speech is an unmitigated disaster”.
Spoken like a true dictator.
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The Arbiters of "Misinformation"
In the current environment of assault on free speech coming from the government, elites and big tech, I would argue that there needs to be a federal law that anyone or anything qualifying as ‘mass media’ - save for politics, for reasons I’m not elaborating here, but ought to be obvious - should be required to posit the opposing viewpoint in a non-demeaning manner among such proselytizing.
Such a law would obviously be ripe with debate and I concede that all the answers are not in this comment.
Specifically, I’m referencing tech algorithms which feed users’ biases and addictions and keep them insulated in their echo chambers via very effective gaslighting, but I’m also referencing platforms such as the atlantic.
The left - and the government - has successfully redefined ‘news’ and that poison has infected all manner of information publication (including ‘science’). It is rare to see a balanced viewpoint. Even posted here most of what we see reinforce our own biases. I would not have a problem of seeing a daily smattering of reminder as to why I’m Conservative in frequent posts, as opposed to having to rely on the few of us who post pieces wholly ‘from the dark side’ such as this tripe.
This atlantic article is representative of said echo chamber gaslighting for the left, solely intended to influence the intellectually vulnerable and reinforce the left’s biases (coupled with selling their totalitarian proposals).
It is not free speech which is the weapon, but the cudgel wielded against it masquerading as a righteous movement.
The true danger of the online environment we face as a modern society is he who wields the most influence feeds the true pandemic...
...and my take on it is that we are losing, slowly but surely.
“Freedom of speech means freedom from interference, suppression or punitive action by the government—and nothing else. It does not mean the right to demand the financial support or the material means to express your views at the expense of other men who may not wish to support you. Freedom of speech includes the freedom not to agree, not to listen and not to support one’s own antagonists.” - Rand
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
Fascism, socialism, and communism cannot exist without a totalitarian government with a strong secret police component. All three of these forms of government are failed economic models and will be overthrown by the people unless the government is there to keep their boots on the neck of the people. Free speech is of course not to be tolerated by a totalitarian government, nor is private ownership of guns. The framers of the U.S. Constitution clearly knew the evils of totalitarian governments.
People should be able to say/write anything they want to as long as they don’t threaten someone or someone’s property. I’ll decide who I’ll believe and who I think is crazy.