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Should Fake News Be "Regulated"?
5 years ago
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It is now a few days (not to say a few weeks) was tempted to create a journal entry on this subject... I am eventually doing it after having some troubles on a famous social network where sarcasm doesn't seem to be managed by the "regulation" algorithm (
Most of you have recognized the computer scientist who revealed the mass surveillance of people, including compatriots done by the secret services of his country... which in addition of being potentially considered as an act of high treason in almost martial courts in the World had also begotten a massif diplomatic sħ*t-storm that hasn't been yet properly "solved" (some anti-establishment people would say that he tried to reduce the cognitive distortion between the laws written by -sometimes elected- lawyers and followed by the citizens of the county and the unwritten rules followed by the secret services). Yet the question here is not what this guy has done but more the possibles impacts of the short statement he made in this video.
You probably all guess my positioning on this subject and if you are wondering let say that I like to follow Mr. Ulyanov advice: Β« Trust is good - Control is better Β»
Now ones may wonder if the concept of "control" could be applied to the recent accounts
They also pay for advertisement that portrays the critics as "extremists" or "terrorists" or various other things. The naive 3rd party (who doesn't know about the issues being discussed) then takes the side of the corporations, because their understanding of the topic has been distorted by propaganda.
Yet, I may be wrong, and my "educational background" makes me take old Persian poem as relevant source of wisdom (even if it is just nothing more or less than a somehow mystic text written by Rumi during the 13th century): βThe truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.β
The guy you are quoting was dead before radio. "Control" in his lifetime was the ability to take a pair of scissors to a telegram wire, and to remove library books from the shelves (or simply refuse to teach slaves to read!)
The only option remaining of your false dichotomy is trust. However, there are other options now than simply "control and trust."
No, fake news should not be regulated. Monopolies should be regulated. The issue is not that the news is fake, it's that the media is a monopoly. They simply bought up all the competition, and have created barriers for anyone new to enter without going through their monopoly.