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While We Were Sleeping
The alarming thing has nothing to do with health or elections or wars. The alarming thing is the control of lies. It would be nice if we could eliminate all the lies and have nothing but truth left, as that would clear a lot of things up. The problem and what makes it the alarming thing is, who gets to decide?
YouTube announced it is removing accounts it considers to be providing misinformation. It could be right, and maybe it is misinformation. If it is, it should be removed, or should it? I think it probably has a right under its terms of use. But should it remove information, even if it’s proven to be bad information?
I’ve considered this quite a bit of late, and as much as I would like to see only the truth, I’d rather someone else not decide what is true. It should be up to me to decide, and by me, I mean all of us. Leaving it up to us may lead to our demise, but not having the choice may lead to worse.
The people should decide.
Edited to add:
I think many would agree that bad information has gotten out of hand in recent years. The government cannot and should not take action. The various sources cannot really be trusted. What is the real fix? How do we preserve the truth and disarm the lies?
No. That’s just busy body government. We don’t want big government mirco managing our businesses.
Each of us can decide what sorts of ideas we want to be involved in disseminating. I don’t want to be told that I have to have some socialist on my platform and I am not going to insist that YouTube be required to host an anti-vaccincation person on their platform.
Let the nut jobs develop their own technology or, if they can’t, they communicate the old fashioned way, by word of mouth.