It is a tall order, but as long as it's a right reserved to each individual person to pursue as best they see fit I can have no complaint. The moment any apparatus or agency is created to abrogate that responsibility from the people it will become the target of pernicious individuals who will bend and twist it to suit their own purposes, making it an instrument of lies. Anyone who believes in the maxim of power corrupting must surely admit that the power to dictate "the truth" is one that should never be gi
If you have a generally free and educated population, restricting deceptive speech helps keep it that way. If you don't, it helps keep it THAT way.
The free and educated society argued it can keep ahead of the garbage and doesn't censor much, making it less stable in the name of freedom. The oppressed society doesn't get to have an opinion about censorship, making it more stable.
In the long run, though, the productivity and stability of a society depends strongly on people being happy and motivated. This
Norms maintain societies. Restricting from above doesn't do much. This is why Trump e so corrosive. Great charisma and destroying norms destroys societies.
We have plenty of people who know exactly what is truth and what is disinformation. Let's put those people in charge of what we can see and read.
"Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it." -- P. J. O'Rourke
If you have a generally free and educated population, restricting deceptive speech helps keep it that way. If you don't, it helps keep it THAT way.
The free and educated society argued it can keep ahead of the garbage and doesn't censor much, making it less stable in the name of freedom. The oppressed society doesn't get to have an opinion about censorship, making it more stable.
In the long run, though, the productivity and stability of a society depends strongly on people being happy and motivated. This
Norms maintain societies. Restricting from above doesn't do much. This is why Trump e so corrosive. Great charisma and destroying norms destroys societies.