Brickbat: Regulated Reliability

The German government is considering a new law that would require social media platforms to give greater visibility to content from news organizations that government regulators classify as "reliable" or serving the "public value." According to a leaked planning document, government officials would decide which outlets qualify, and platforms could even be required to meet quotas for how much approved content appears in users' feeds. Supporters argue the idea would help counter misinformation and promote trustworthy news, while critics worry it would give politically connected regulators too much influence over what information people see online and could disadvantage independent or dissenting media outlets.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

60 Minutes just got another Kraut boner.

[LIBtranslator]

Try searching for those Sixties 60 Minutes documendacities urging lynch mobs to violence against marijuana, LSD, nuclear power plants, and NOT bombing peasants on the other side of the planet. You can still find "The Hippie Temptation" on Youtube--it opens with a moving image of a black buy back when George Wallace had sewn up Klan backing in his spoiler bid for the presidency. Christian National Socialist propaganda oozed out of "all three" networks back then. Germany and the USA keep imitating each other's violent mystics.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

WTF are you babbling about now, take your meds

[LIBtranslator]

Yes, the exact technical term is Gleichschaltung, which--the OCT1933 Ladies' Home Journal gushed--means "Conformatization," the Christian National Socialist watchword. This is not so different from the attitude described in the current Reason article on Japan. Japan and Germany are both struggling to shake off their Sino-American tarbrushing as "pushers" while the US used the League of Nations to whittle down German pharma's market share before 1933. Death sentence pot laws are relics of U.S. prohibitionism.

[mad.casual]

Abschnitt zweihundertdreizig

Bauen eigen Twitter macht frei.

[TangoDelta]

So the new Stasi wants to ensure their version of Pravda is the only acceptable version of Pravda.