So then who decides what is and isn’t disinformation? I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve seen governments claim that people were spreading disinformation, only for it to come out years later that the people pushing against propaganda were not wrong at all. Does Iraq’s WMD’s ring a bell?
Calling for a global censorship authority is by far worse. So much worse. I don’t understand why you think that makes it better.
Walk me through your thinking on that. You believe that the world governments, the greatest purveyors of disinformation and propaganda on the planet, are going to allow everyone to know the truth by outlawing disinformation? You really, truly believe this?
For the second year in a row, the WEF Global Risks Report ranks both misinformation (false or inaccurate information) and disinformation (intentional misinformation) as the the **number one short-term risk to humanity— even above extreme weather events, cyber attacks, and armed conflict.
Well that’s an absolutely ridiculous degree of hyperbole. And I’m sure it’s linked to the push for intense censorship in the global west. This is just an attempt to manufacture consent for more crackdowns.
Capitalism is the greatest global threat. We already have plenty of information on what is destroying the planet, killing the most people, etc. We still can’t change these things even when we know about them, because capitalism has total control of all the levers of power. Not to mention the capitalists are funding actual disinformation campaigns.
What good is knowing the truth, if we’re forbidden from acting on it?
Not inflation. Price-gouging. Big difference.
If it were inflation increasing prices, profit percentages would remain relatively stable. That’s not what we’re seeing. Profit margins are through the roof across the board.
Agreed. I don’t support their views. But the comment above was misrepresenting them. We don’t need falsehoods to win the argument.
The anti-abortion extremists really do believe abortions are murder, and that killing the doctor is the lesser evil, to prevent them from performing other abortions.
Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.
“Inaccurate” is a funny way to describe officers breaking the law, violating their oaths, lying to the courts, and attempting to frame these people.
But in reality, they don’t give a shit about convictions. They almost always simply drop the charges against protestors. The point is to make them afraid, get them off the street, and kill their momentum. And this is exactly what their leadership has instructed them to do.
It’s pretty simple to send a Nextcloud share link.
I really didn’t appreciate how bad it was, until I witnessed my wife being subjected to this shit.
One time I was playing Star Trek: Bridge Crew with a couple randos. We’d been playing for at least half an hour, and they seemed like nice guys. My wife had just finished watching all of TNG, and she excitedly asked if she could try playing for a round.
The moment my wife’s voice hit the mic, these two neckbeards turned into complete pieces of shit, and started right in on harassing her and talking down. I watched her face sink. She took off the vr headset, and hasn’t touched it since. I don’t think she’s even watched Star Trek since, it was such a sour experience.
And these were the stereotypical ‘I struggle with women’ type of neckbeards. No shit. Maybe if you didn’t treat them as subhuman, one of them might speak to you.
It’s funny being a socialist who doesn’t believe in god. I actually support the things Jesus taught becoming law, and Christians argue the most against it.
Sounds like you guys have some serious trust issues. If sharing your location with each other devolves that quickly, it ain’t the tech making problems.
Hmm. And all of the neolibs have been saying for years that “barely any NPR/PBS funding comes from the government anyway!” But now they’re shutting down without it? Always knew they were full of shit.
Fuck’em. They’ve been manufacturing consent for atrocities since their inception. Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent exposed the whole game back in the 80’s, and they went into overdrive after 9/11.
I used to listen to NPR on my commute, but finally called it when they rehashed a CIA press release verbatim without even a hint of scrutiny. They were running covert ads as stories, they fired their ombudsman for finally calling them out on the degrading coverage, they helped bury the Bernie campaign in bad coverage (while giving Clinton softball praise), continually pushed Islamophobic narratives, etc. While their coverage always had propaganda spread throughout, there was at least some kernel of truth in their stories for a while. But they completely squandered any amount of trust they’d built. Now there’s too few people left to defend them. I have no sympathy.