Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
What I do know is that what we have now isn’t working.
Why isn’t it working? What is the harm in people seeing beheadings? Reading the media of the opposite side? We start outlawing “misinformation” and the only information allowed is the official state narrative. People are so quick to forget that governments lie all the time. Weapons of mass destruction was an elaborate lie perpetuated by both governments and the media. When the US blew up a hospital in 2014~2015 in Afghanistan, they immediately denied it and blamed in on the Afghanis. There’s multiple examples of Israel killing journalists or bombing civilians and then lying about it.
We live in a post-truth age. Outlawing one lie simply allows the other to proliferate more easily. It’s dangerous and we’re looking more and more like authoritarian China every passing day.
People should have the right to decide for themselves what sort of media they want to consume. They should be able to decide for themselves what lies they want to believe.
Why isn’t it working? What is the harm in people seeing beheadings? Reading the media of the opposite side? We start outlawing “misinformation” and the only information allowed is the official state narrative. People are so quick to forget that governments lie all the time. Weapons of mass destruction was an elaborate lie perpetuated by both governments and the media. When the US blew up a hospital in 2014~2015 in Afghanistan, they immediately denied it and blamed in on the Afghanis. There’s multiple examples of Israel killing journalists or bombing civilians and then lying about it.
We live in a post-truth age. Outlawing one lie simply allows the other to proliferate more easily. It’s dangerous and we’re looking more and more like authoritarian China every passing day.
People should have the right to decide for themselves what sort of media they want to consume. They should be able to decide for themselves what lies they want to believe.