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from the no-more-profits-from-false-prophets dept.
Google and Facebook finally announced steps to tackle fake news on their respective platforms this week following increasing pressure from critics eager to halt the flow of falsehoods online.
Both companies said they will prohibit fake news websites from advertising on their platforms, thus reducing the exposure of such articles to the public while also starving the companies of an important source of advertising income.
The move comes after the companies received a wave of criticism over its role in propagating misinformation, particularly in this election cycle in which many observed that a bitter partisan war was potentially worsened by polarizing news sources touting untrue assertions. While the technology companies have in the past been hesitant to mediate the flow of news, this change might signal a change in thought as they come to grip with the real-life implications of lackluster surveillance on their platforms.
Wrongthink will not be permitted, citizens.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:17AM
It does seem that the enforcement of basic human rights does have to come from the top down. Otherwise you end up with jurisdictions denying basic rights such as the freedom of expression. Perhaps you like the idea of your State/county/municipality being able to illegalize various forms of speech.
Then there is the question that you raise about who gets human rights. Do dead people have the same rights as the living? What about potential people? You bring up infanticide and then seem to equate it to killing a potential. Where do we draw the line. Where I am, it's pretty simple, a human being is a living breathing person. When you're born (alive), you're a person.
In most societies, marriage is a union of 2 (and sometimes more) people. Lots of societies haven't cared about what genitals those 2 people have. Seems to be a Jewish Christian Muslim thing based on some goat herders morals. Having people in society without children to help raise other children is a net positive. Americans knew this before the crazy followers of the bible showed up.
You seem to be like whats his name who said "Give me Liberty or Death" so he had the freedom to go home and whip the 55 slaves that he owned. Should liberty include the freedom to own people and do what you want with them? Most of your speech seems to be that is what you believe, or at least to remove others freedoms as your personal social justice war.