Of course that is an issue but we’ve arrived at a point where I think that is less of an issue than the rampant “everybody and everything is a lie, there is no objective truth anymore, but everybody claims to have the absolute, factual, and moral truth anyway”
The current situation is unsustainable. You can’t have a normal civil discussion about climate change because the other side screeches that climate change is fake news, then shits on the table.
You can’t do anything if you can’t at least agree on what is factual truth and oh boy, Republicans and conservatives just put so much lies and bullshit out there that it’s just not doable anymore
It has to stop. So normal people like you and me, fine, talk. But websites must contain FACTUAL information, or be very clearly labeled “fiction, not factual”. If the site contains information that is known to be false, just have some DMCA like ayatem that will remove it from the Internet.
What source is factual? Anything not supported by a single government, anything that is not funded by any for profit company. Wikipedia is a good example. Sure, it’s far from perfect but it’s a 100 times more reliable than anything else out there and you gotta start with something.
Make an independent government funded group that can work no matter who’s in charge at the government, and they are tasked with checking facts.
If someone with power (politician, famous actor, comoany, whatever) makes some false statement, have it labelled as such and fine them. They don’t repeatedly, remove their Internet posting privileges. They circumvent that? Jail them.
Its either that or humanity will be over. This current anarchy is used by various actors for only their personal benefit, and they all have the “I don’t care if the world burns if I can rule the ashes. I have matches” attitude. How much more of this bullshit do you think we can have? What do you think will happen once AI picture and videos are perfected? You won’t be able to trust anything ever again, the Internet will effectively be dead and only conspiracy wing nuts will use it to read the latest outrageous lie to incentive them to commit some terror attack.
Of course that is an issue but we’ve arrived at a point where I think that is less of an issue than the rampant “everybody and everything is a lie, there is no objective truth anymore, but everybody claims to have the absolute, factual, and moral truth anyway”
The current situation is unsustainable. You can’t have a normal civil discussion about climate change because the other side screeches that climate change is fake news, then shits on the table.
You can’t do anything if you can’t at least agree on what is factual truth and oh boy, Republicans and conservatives just put so much lies and bullshit out there that it’s just not doable anymore
It has to stop. So normal people like you and me, fine, talk. But websites must contain FACTUAL information, or be very clearly labeled “fiction, not factual”. If the site contains information that is known to be false, just have some DMCA like ayatem that will remove it from the Internet.
What source is factual? Anything not supported by a single government, anything that is not funded by any for profit company. Wikipedia is a good example. Sure, it’s far from perfect but it’s a 100 times more reliable than anything else out there and you gotta start with something.
Make an independent government funded group that can work no matter who’s in charge at the government, and they are tasked with checking facts.
If someone with power (politician, famous actor, comoany, whatever) makes some false statement, have it labelled as such and fine them. They don’t repeatedly, remove their Internet posting privileges. They circumvent that? Jail them.
Its either that or humanity will be over. This current anarchy is used by various actors for only their personal benefit, and they all have the “I don’t care if the world burns if I can rule the ashes. I have matches” attitude. How much more of this bullshit do you think we can have? What do you think will happen once AI picture and videos are perfected? You won’t be able to trust anything ever again, the Internet will effectively be dead and only conspiracy wing nuts will use it to read the latest outrageous lie to incentive them to commit some terror attack.