• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Allowing liars and deceivers a mouthpiece means they can spread their message far and wide.

    Freedom of speech doesn’t mean they’re entitled to a megaphone, let alone a 100Kw PA system.

    Needless to say using psychology to manipulate people should be illegal.

    Anyone using rhetorical tricks is doing that implicitly. That’s unenforceable. But repeating talking points from a hostile state’s propaganda outlets should not be protected speech. That’s acting as an agent of a foreign power.

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      3 months ago

      I agree with your point about freedom of speech but would like to elaborate a little more. Free speech is the domain of government and most speech in the US fall outside that area.

      I don’t particularly want the government to regulate speech. Instead we should have a very strong culture that prevents and shames things like othering people. Basically a woke culture that the right loves to complain about but much stronger than it is today.

      I don’t see eye to eye with with you over sweeping away lying, manipulation, and the fraudulent behavior we see in our countries leaders both private and public sector.

      Simply put a doctor cannot lie to you or they would lose their license. Politicians should be no different. This is not rocket science, if someone manipulates and lies they have no business in government.

      There is a reason they renamed propaganda as public relations. They knew the public didn’t like it, so they obscured it to hide what it really is. Using social science to manipulate people through fear and disgust should be straight up illegal.

      Right now the best of psychological science is being used against our populace as a weapon and that is unacceptable.