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Banning speech and information is the definition of censorship no matter how you try to spin it. A curator deciding what information people can and cannot see on the internet even if 99% of the public does not want to see it is censorship.
But you are missing the point. The concept of curation does not imply that anything is to be "banned," and it is mere political posturing to insist that somehow it does. That's why I used the example of Consumer Reports. They don't ban anything; they do research and publish results that help to weed out fact from fiction in product advertising. A curation function for the internet would do something similar. We already have the basic model for this - it's called science - and we already have some functions on the internet - their called fact-checking organizations. Nothing is to be "banned" - we just need to put a few more resources into doing in-depth research so that internet fact-checking can rise to something closer to the level of science.
But you are missing the point. The concept of curation does not imply that anything is to be "banned," and it is mere political posturing to insist that somehow it does. That's why I used the example of Consumer Reports. They don't ban anything; they do research and publish results that help to weed out fact from fiction in product advertising. A curation function for the internet would do something similar. We already have the basic model for this - it's called science - and we already have some functions on the internet - their called fact-checking organizations. Nothing is to be "banned" - we just need to put a few more resources into doing in-depth research so that internet fact-checking can rise to something closer to the level of science.
Uh Yes consumer reports, a free market concept, not quite the same as a gov run information curator.
Funny you mention science, yet another area where govt funding and meddling has distorted the truth.
But you are missing the point. The concept of curation does not imply that anything is to be "banned," and it is mere political posturing to insist that somehow it does. That's why I used the example of Consumer Reports. They don't ban anything; they do research and publish results that help to weed out fact from fiction in product advertising. A curation function for the internet would do something similar. We already have the basic model for this - it's called science - and we already have some functions on the internet - their called fact-checking organizations. Nothing is to be "banned" - we just need to put a few more resources into doing in-depth research so that internet fact-checking can rise to something closer to the level of science.
No people can do their own fact checking, allowing other people to decide what is true and what is not and then not allowing the information to get to the people is banning that information.
Closer to the level of science? Like the science behind Mansanto? Like the science behind vaccines? Like the science that says Cannabis should be illegal? LIke the science behind global warming? Or the science behind the old thoughts that the earth was flat? Science is not about facts, it has been bastardized to the point that it is about money and finding a way to get the results that whoever is paying for the study wants it to be.
Are any democrats or liberals for free speech? It doesn't seem like it.
They want us to know the official "truth", like when Hillary said at the debate that 17 US intelligence agencies attribute the wikileaks hack to Russia. Well, not exactly:
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