Let’s call Nazis “Nazis”.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/08/31/brazil-judge-bans-x-as-musk-challenges-top-courts-orders/
Let’s call disinformation, lying, and propaganda what they are too.
This isn’t about speech rights of the “far right” on some ideological spectrum of rational policy disagreement. It’s about hate speech and strategic lying to promote violence and white supremacy.
Countries have been plunged into genocide with such tactics. Speech has consequences. Social media has inadequate countermeasures. https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/113056833635789357
Agreed, lying is far easier to understand than the term misinformation.
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@zleap @skry
i still think that the mis- and disinformation neologisms are themselves just false. information is information. these terms are just fancy new words for "doesn't fit the official narrative, no matter if true or false".
i know you are on the other isle on this, but take the mrna shots: posts which said that rather severe side effects were more common than officials admitted were called "misinformation". a while later the official numbers in germany did show one severe reaction in 10000 doses. i don't know the official term but that's certainly not "very rare". the "nonsevere" reactions were one in 2000, still much more than usual vaccines.
regarding "nazis" and censorship to prevent them: censorship is what the nazis (and every other authoritarian like communists) did as first thing when they came into power. if anything, censorship is a proof of things already being "nazi".
the view that most people are too stupid and are easily manipulated also is placing oneself above them, making democracy a farce. either people have complete agency, which is the only way democracy makes sense. or they don't, but then don't call it democracy, because it clearly isn't if people have to be controlled to vote for the "correct" choice.
