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icegladiator@lemy.lol 2 days agoRussia is flooding the web with disinformation, we need to do something against that Giving one person the authority to decide what is Russian disinformation and what isn’t is very dangerous. Isn’t the whole reason why we use the fediverse in order to prevent information being filtered through Big Brother/Big Corps, etc.? I think educating the average person that news sites like RT and Sputnik are owned by a foreign state is a better approach.
Fuck the conservatives, Fuck Russia in particular, Slava Ukraini! This isn’t me arguing in favor of conservatism or Russian imperialism, and you putting this at the end of your comment makes it seem like you don’t want to have an honest conversation. If it was 2001, I feel like you would be arguing in favor of The Patriot Act because Fuck Terrorists, Fuck Osama in particular, Slava US-led Coalition!
Sites like RT and Sputnik that deliberately put out false information to intentionally mislead people directly cut against that purpose Why don’t we start delisting Fox News and other conservative media while we are at it? Given that shows like Tucker Carlson have been proven in court to be spreading known lies
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yeah that’s why reasonable instances defederate from lemmygrad & co.
That’s not how it works. The average person is dumb as fuck and they need to be protected against disinfo. Also RT is not just “owned by a foreign state”, it is 100% state controlled propaganda, that is deliberately spread in the west to influence the public opinion.
Also, as an educated person myself I do not want to skip through 10 websites run by the Kremlin until I find a good result.
I am all in for that! As far as I know Fox is not run by the white house though, but I am not from the US so I am not sure.
As long as there is not a good alternative for corporate search engine as in similar to the fediverse, we have to work with what we have.