"In today's networked environment, when anyone can broadcast live or post their thoughts to a social network, it would seem that censorship ought to be impossible. This should be the golden age of free speech.

And sure, it is a golden age of free speech - if you can believe your lying eyes. Is that footage you're watching real? Was it really filmed where and when it says it was? "


...

"The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, not muzzling speech itself. As a result, they don't look much like the old forms of censorship at all. They look like viral or coordinated harassment campaigns, which harness the dynamics of viral outrage to impose an unbearable and disproportionate cost on the act of speaking out. They look like epidemics of disinformation, meant to undercut the credibility of valid information sources. They look like bot-fueled campaigns of trolling and distraction, or piecemeal leaks of hacked materials, meant to swamp the attention of traditional media."

ZEYNEP TUFEKCI
Wired

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

traditional censorship is alive and well at googlefacebooktwitter

hate speech from trolls hiding behind an alias is not traditional

It is traditional to the internet.

depends on where you look

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Traditional Censorship online has never been more prevalent than it is right now, worse and worse every day

What do you want to say that's been censored, johnny?



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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

Too much work, this is a low effort board

If you cannot see it, I will never convince you

The pretext of this article is laughable, look at all the comments. Would have been epicly ironic if he disabled comments

You didn't read the article.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

"It is traditional to the internet. "

point made

he was wrong at the very beginning, the golden age of free speech has already passed

free speech got trump elected, now it's time to correct that mistake and steps have already been taken

Rusian lies got Trump elected.
Bought and paid for, not free.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

When 90% of your coverage is anti trump, the media drives people online to view the other side of the coin

Give fair coverage and we would be less open to misinformation via the internet

But no, ramping up negative coverage and censoring conservatives online under the guise of Russia is the way, surely that won't backfire again

Edited: 01/19/2018 at 09:06 PM by johnny