US Senator Michael Bennet Invokes EU's Censorship Demands, Calls For Big Tech to Censor "Misinformation"
US Senator Michael Bennet Invokes EU's Censorship Demands, Calls For Big Tech to Censor "Misinformation"
Note that "Reclaim The Net" is very shady and unlikely to be a legitimate civil rights organisation.
Firstly, they display bias; they only ever say positive things about Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Ron DeSantis, and spin most things in whatever way helps the far-right in the US. They are silent on any Internet related civil rights issues that reflect poorly on the US far-right, or reflect well on central or left parties. Contrast this to more authentic organisations, which criticise things from all over the political spectrum.
Secondly, they prioritise collecting your personally identifiable information over advocating for civil liberties. Some of their articles are behind a registration wall where you have to give at least an email address to see the content.
Thirdly, however, they don't tell you who they are, and go to lengths to hide it. Whois privacy, author names are likely pseudonyms, only contact is an email, no information about governance structures. There are legitimate reasons to be pseudonymous, although given how keen they are to collect data on visitors, it is a bit hypocritical!
I believe there is a network of single-interest sites the far-right use as hooks to try to gather people with a range of different reasons for being dissatisfied, where the next step is to try to radicalise them and line them up behind Trump.
they only ever say positive things about Donald Trump
Sooo... it's just another right-wing astroturfing project.
Who decides what is, or receives the label of, misinformation?
Who decides what is, or receives the label of, misinformation?
objectively correct
Typical Hexbear W.
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The data scientist in me is happy while the citizen is very sad.
Deliberate edits, quote mining, etc. Imo
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Reddit, facebook, google, etc.
They tried to set up a Ministry of Truth last year, and they’ll never give up.
The disinformation czar, all the way up her own ass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg
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I still can't believe that happened. Mind boggling.
I'm confused. Why did she record herself singing that song? She was the head of that board? What the fuckis happening?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg
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Just FYI: Media Bias Fact/Check reports Reclaim The Net as having a right-wing bias and mixed factual credibility.
Censor "misinformation"
Read "disseminate our misinformation exclusively"
Getting ready for 2024
Which is some bullshit, because Russiagate was long-ago debunked, as well as the actual efficacy of Cambridge Analytica (it largely wasn’t). But thanks to Rachel Maddow’s daily conspiracy theorizing over the span of years, most liberals still believe that foreign State propaganda is going to Manchurian Candidate the populace and steal their democracy. Which makes them rather accepting of the idea that the government should decide what is mis/dis/malinformation. In other words they’ve been primed to accept censorship.
The Mueller report did find plenty of evidence of Russian interference, just not enough to charge Trump. It was a damn site better than the British report on the matter, though, which basically just said "we didn't find anything because we didn't look".
Cambridge Analytica absolutely had a role to play as well. The company was disbanded to try and prevent any fallback, however the same players are acting under different brands. Targeted Facebook ads have proven too effective, you can tell whatever lies you want if you select the right audience, then there will be no one to challenge them - particularly if you do it just before the election.
Based on your vernacular, it sounds like you're a hexbear user washed up on our shores and circumventing the defederation, shilling for Russia.
Thank goodness for Lemmy am I right?
Not for long: the Global North countries have the fediverse on their radars now.
Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)
Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.
Ooo, maybe we should have AI start cultivating information and choosing what to and to not show people too! Surely nothing bad will come from that, right?
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Michael Bennett (D)
Shut the hell up Mikey