news.sky.com
Covered in another thread - the aim is to stop FALSE information being posted on social media that could lead to people making ill informed decisions on the vaccine.George orwell novel is becoming a reality.
COVID-19: Labour spokesman calls anti-vax content 'garbage' after demand for emergency social media law
The government insists it has secured a major commitment from Facebook, Twitter and Google to tackle anti-vax disinformation.
And who is it that decides what is "FALSE information" ????????? please say its not you
I do agree about freedom of speech but when there is obvious factual errors (Bill Gates has put microchips in the vaccine sort of stuff) why should it not be called out? A large part of the equation is why do people post this stuff - yes, it is sometimes plain stupidity but it is often driven by money - youtubers, bloggers and the like earn more the more hits they get so it is a fertile breeding ground for sensationalist storylines. It's a modern day version in The News of The World; the content was largely fictional and certainly sensationalist but the public lapped it up so more copies were sold.And who is it that decides what is "FALSE information" ????????? please say its not you
I watched a program on the net a few nights ago there is much fake news out there on all sorts of subjects (inc corvid) all the political parties either use it as a tool or claim "fake news" on any legitimate item they don't see as furthering their political agenda, the same goes for all the big businesses & there are even computer programs to generate false information within a given set of parameters ............. the ruski's & the yanks started all that game during the cold war
So the risk in curtailing our right to free speech is that some genuine articles written on social media & elsewhere will be/are already flagged as false so genuine messages do NOT get across ...... governments world wide will love this if it becomes the norm
All true but like I said who decides what is fake & what isnt ?
lets hope not, its bad enough you having a measure of control on here never mind something importantMe.
Me.
Maybe there is a halfway house on the big sites such as Facebook and twitter.....the ability for anyone to post a 'fact check' query that temporarily blocks the post. There are a million reasons why that probably wouldn't work on day 1 but you sometimes just have to start somewhere.
Which logically would include this and all other forums
Why? Everything posted on here is fact. Fact!
I thought Jaws was saying that 'fact checking' would eat into the massive profit he makes from this site.
Rubber.
I did but she didn't like it
Providing it is changed within the time allowed to edit a post, simplyhover over the like button again and you can select a different response
But please sir,