This lesson doesn't make sense in a two-party system where the two parties have wildly different levels of trustworthiness.

The left suppressing lies only opens the door to the right suppressing the truth, because the right was an enemy of truth and a spreader of lies from the beginning. The answer can't be "allow the lies so the truth has a chance to survive", that's just a compromise that brings us further from the truth.

Demanding neutrality on truthfulness in mass communication, especially during extreme political turbulence, is a terrible idea.

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jvanderbot an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You're missing the point - if someone, broadly and irrevocably, is responsible for deciding what is true and repressing things that say otherwise, then that mechanism, even if used truthfully by one party and viciously by another, is itself a bad mechanism by virtue of being so easily abused. The very existence of a "bad others" in your government implies you do not want to give power to government.

That is the whole point. if you add power while you're in office, you better believe that power will be used against you while you're not. It's not about good vs bad, it's about giving power to an organization that itself can be flipped good or bad by one election.

Of course "ours==good, theirs==bad" is a different, dangerous cognitive problem, but institutional power creep is orthogonal and needs to be fought regardless to protect all of us from that power being used against all of us. That is a prerequisite to civil society wherein we're forced to live with people with completely different world views.

Because right now, platforms can and do cave to government pressure, so they're just thin proxy enforcement arms against dissent.

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rdm_blackhole 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The left suppressing lies only opens the door to the right suppressing the truth, because the right was an enemy of truth and a spreader of lies from the beginning.

It must be so nice to live in this imaginary world where the left does no wrong whatsoever but the right is the evil incarnate.

Furthermore, who decides what lies are and what truth is and who is responsible for enforcing this?

	▲	Dig1t 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It’s honestly a very dangerous mentality. It’s what makes people do things like murder Charlie Kirk in cold blood for doing nothing other than speaking words, or attempt to shoot Trump at a campaign event. It leads them to become the very bigots they think they are fighting against.

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newfriend an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

left = good! right = bad! amirite?