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UK Guardian: Social Media Needs Massive Moderation To Save Democracy Or Something

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Nothing says freedom and democracy like advocating to shut down those you accuse of Wrongthink. This is utterly unsurprising from the UK Guardian, and Progressives (nice Fascists) in general, as it’s always about massive, controlling government and refusing to allow people with different opinions from speaking. They only care about the 1st Amendment as it supports them, not for others

‘Fundamentally dangerous’: reversal of social media guardrails could prove disastrous for 2024 elections

Increasing misinformation on social media, platforms scaling back content moderation and the rise of AI are converging to create a perfect storm for the 2024 elections that some experts warn could put democracy at risk.

YouTube this week reversed its election integrity policy, allowing content contesting the validity of the 2020 elections to remain on the platform. Meta, meanwhile, reinstated the Instagram account of misinformation super spreader Robert F Kennedy Jr and will allow Donald Trump to post again imminently. Twitter has also allowed Trump to return, and has generally seen a rise in the spread of misinformation since billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform last year.

These trends may prove disastrous for the 2024 elections, and for the health of democracy at large, said Imran Ahmed, chief executive officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit that fights misinformation.

“This is fundamentally dangerous,” he said. “American democracy itself cannot survive wave after wave of disinformation that seeks to undermine democracy, consensus and further polarizes the public.”

See? People having their say is dangerous. Allowing people to make up their own minds is dangerous. Good grief, do you know some of the cesspools, to put it mildly, I’ve scrolled through since I started blogging? The lunatics on the Republican side, those on the Democrats side, Nazis like at Stormfront, Communists, BLM, Antifa, hate groups, 9/11 Truthers, Islamic Jihadis, you name it, all to see what nuts say. Not to join them, but, you have to understand other sides to be able to defeat them. It’s why Bush and Obama couldn’t beat Islamic jihadis: they refused to acknowledge what they wanted.

YouTube said in a statement on its decision that leaving the policy in place risked “curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm”.

See, in the eyes of the Left (who are truly far to the right on the political scale, deep into the Authoritarian model), any political speech that doesn’t bend the knee is violence.

Such misinformation rabbit holes serve to further polarize voters and delegitimize the election process, said Ahmed of the CCDH, adding that if social media platforms’ enforcement actions are removed, then “the danger will reappear very, very quickly”.

“The real threat now is that we’re going to have an entire electoral cycle dominated by a debate over the legitimacy of elections, leading to a significant and disastrous erosion of the confidence people have in the electoral process,” he said. “Democracy is consensus based and the most important tenet that underpins our democracy is that we accept the results.”

Where were these complaints when Democrats said Bush stole 2000 and 2004? When some wackos were saying Republicans stole the 2010 midterms. They said Trump would steal the 2016 election, and made up lies to prove this, and still believe it was a Russian plot.

The deterioration of the information system also creates a primed environment for malicious actors, including other countries, to further destabilize the US, said Payton. She also warned of potential violence, including what was seen in the January 6 Capitol riots. Further, it may simply leave Americans so divided that they don’t feel the need to vote at all, Payton added.

“My concern is that there will be whole groups of people who become so disenfranchised that they don’t vote at all,” she said. “If you think your vote doesn’t matter because of misinformation and disinformation and you don’t vote, democracy dies.”

That’s on those adults. They need to make up their own minds. Not be only allowed to see Approved Doctrine.

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