Brickbat: Spot the Disinformation
The Australian government has introduced legislation that would require social media companies to adopt an industry standard on battling disinformation. The law would force social media companies to keep records of how they enforce that standard and give the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) the power to obtain those records and fine companies up to $2.75 million ($1.84 million USD) or 2 percent of global revenue, whichever is greater, if they don't act aggressively enough to block disinformation. If the industry does not create its own code of conduct, law gives the ACMA the power to create one. The penalty for violating that standard would be up to $6.8 million ($4.54 million U.S.) or 5 percent of global revenue.
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Once a penal colony, now run by a bunch of authoritarian dicks.
There will be a stiff penalty for noncompliance.
Among right-wing wrong-nuts, the “stiff penalty for noncompliance” will be used to WHACK (and whack HARD!) on those who peddle the disinformation that “The Donald’s Sacred Erections were NOT actually STOLEN!”
No town square. No free speech.
Notice that NONE of these fascists are calling it lying.
Because disinformation and misinformation are simply contrary to information aka propaganda and “considered” false.
Nowhere is it required that the information being contradicted is verified as truth.
None of these fascists can afford to be held accountable to the standard of truth. What I consider a minimum requirement for employment.
“Nowhere is it required that the information being contradicted is verified as truth.” Excellent point! That absolutely should be required before any so-called “disinformation” can be removed. And by the same standards we use for trials. After all, who is the arbiter of “truth” anyway?
By jury, no way!
Truth is discerned, not arbitrated.
Truth is reality. How do we discern what reality is? With correctly applied logic and science.
If a jury arbitrates that there is no gravity, we all don’t suddenly float away.
Rob Misek has already floated away into Holocaust denial and who knows what all else. Rob Misek is all-knowing enough to prove, using logic and science, which tastes better, vanilla or chocolate!
In your ignorance you asked an ambiguous question.
The unambiguous question is “what tastes better – to me”.
For that there is only one truthful answer. None of your business.
Fuckwit. Hahaha
The unambiguous question is “which is better, me enslaving the masses, or allowing them all to be free; which is better… For MEEEEE?”. Science and logic says… I’m more satisfied enslaving the masses! It caters to me ego!
(So much for the value of science and logic, in certain categories.)
That’s a tough one.
If you try to enslave anyone you’ll be shot dead, but is that better than life for a waste of skin like you.
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The Australian government has introduced legislation that would require social media companies to adopt an industry standard on battling disinformation.
Let’s see. What turn has Down Under taken recently that would spur its government to aggressively stifle dissent. I WONDER.
Thankfully, this new legislation will help boost support for their covid vaccine mandates.
Or at least make it illegal to complain about them.
EVERYONE AGREES!
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Yes, it is clear that only the government can spread disinformation.
Time to open the borders to Australian refugees.
Assange?
Social media platforms should immediately abandon or sell off all physical assets within the jurisdictions of any nation state that tries to regulate content posted by subscribers on their platforms and then refuse to pay any fines assessed by those nation states. They also might explore partnering with Starlink to make sure that consumers in those countries have unblockable access to banned content on their platforms (as was done in Ukraine when Russia invaded) in order to subvert direct and indirect censorship.
…which sounds like a great idea, until you realize why they have “physical assets” in those places now.
(Hint: advertising is local.)
I would adopt a simple policy. Is the government arguing for something? It’s disinformation. Is the government trying to surreptitiously suppress something? It’s fact.
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On Friday tucker Carlson exposed more of Biden’s lies about January 6
““I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund, in an interview that was never aired on Fox, by the way — I was fired before it could air, I’m gonna interview him again,” Carlson said.
“But Steven Sund was the totally non-political, worked for Nancy Pelosi, I mean, this was not some right-wing activist. He was the chief of Capitol Police on January 6, and he said, ‘Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that crowd was filled with federal agents.’ What? ‘Yes.’ Well he would know, of course, because he was in charge of security at the site.” …
“The amount of lying around January 6, and it was obvious in the tapes that I showed, is really distressing.”
Perhaps the Biden Presidency will be remembered in history as the time of lies. Hopefully an isolated period, not the start of a new era.”
2023/07/08/narrative-collapse-tucker-carlson-says-capitol-police-chief-admitted-jan6-crowd-was-filled-with-feds
Wentworth report
No links eh?
You’re citing Tucker Carlson in opposition to people telling “lies”…
Whasamatter, no Trump quote was available?
Bigotry is demonstrated by the unwillingness to consider arguments.
(blows whistle) Attacking the messenger, not the message. 5 yard penalty, replay the down.
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