alt Hacker NewsBecause whoever gets to determine what lies and slander are become your new dictators.
If the problem is Russian bots, there’s a much easier way to solve it: make Facebook and the platforms that allow them to spread financially liable.
You’re unironically arguing that giving up your freedom is a protection against losing your freedom.
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saubeidl • last Saturday at 1:39 PM
Hear me out, but: You can elect a commission of experts to be deciding this. Term limits. Separate independent institution from the government.
That's not a dictator. You're just grasping for hyperbole to prop up an ideological point.
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Freedom is a scale, not binary. I'm willing to move a bit on that scale to avoid going completely to one of the opposites. I completely disagree with your suggestion that if you don't have complete freedom, you're at the complete opposite end, I.e. zero freedom.