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Bucknutz said:
Again, there is a difference between Government regulation and Social media self regulating.
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The only way social media will self-regulate is if regulation standards are created that they are to follow. Otherwise they will self-regulate in whatever manner generates the highest return possible, which is exactly what they have been doing so far. Regulating just enough to avoid government regulation, but realistically not have any impact on the safety or security of their daily users. Essentially status quo.
 
fishonjazz said:
Good post. Well done.

Do you think Russia, China, Iran, etc should have first amendment protections from the United States if their intentions are to hurt the United States?

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Truthfully?

I think there should be a large-scale public awareness campaign aimed at educating people about the various, proven misinformation content that includes exactly where it came from. I wouldn't even be opposed to providing strong incentives for social media platforms to provide links to these resources and to make them front-and-center. These resources should also be designed to teach people to critically evaluate information in order to be better equipped to, at a minimum, be skeptical about radical claims they see online.

I've also thought for a long while that the public education system should include a class taken each year from middle school and up that is designed specifically to teach teenagers how to think critically, how to research, and how to discern fact from pure fiction, specifically from an online perspective.
I also think the US should impose extremely harsh economic sanctions on any foreign government that is found to be actively engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining our elections or democratic processes.

The unfortunate reality is that too many politicians are parroting Russian propoganda, so it might be pretty hard for the government to implement these ideas. But for that very reason, I absolutely do not want them to have the power to regulate people's ideas and beliefs. I just don't trust a non-partisan committee to stay truly uncorrupted, especially given how insanely motivated bad actors would be to get a foothold in this committee, and how much money and resources would be poured into accomplishing that.
 

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MT Steve said:
Truthfully?

I think there should be a large-scale public awareness campaign aimed at educating people about the various, proven misinformation content that includes exactly where it came from. I wouldn't even be opposed to providing strong incentives for social media platforms to provide links to these resources and to make them front-and-center. These resources should also be designed to teach people to critically evaluate information in order to be better equipped to, at a minimum, be skeptical about radical claims they see online.

I've also thought for a long while that the public education system should include a class taken each year from middle school and up that is designed specifically to teach teenagers how to think critically, how to research, and how to discern fact from pure fiction, specifically from an online perspective.
I also think the US should impose extremely harsh economic sanctions on any foreign government that is found to be actively engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining our elections or democratic processes.

The unfortunate reality is that too many politicians are parroting Russian propoganda, so it might be pretty hard for the government to implement these ideas. But for that very reason, I absolutely do not want them to have the power to regulate people's ideas and beliefs. I just don't trust a non-partisan committee to stay truly uncorrupted, especially given how insanely motivated bad actors would be to get a foothold in this committee, and how much money and resources would be poured into accomplishing that.
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Steve critical thinking is a process that takes depending on the individual a decent time to learn. Additionally their is no provision within the WTO to penalise nations for using the internet and other means to interfere with other states. There's a bunch of reasons for this, principally its because the "umpire" is the WTO and most of the trade law and rules that the WTO works off comes from the GATT which is now a 40 year old piece of law.

I've reached a point in my life where I feel like I'm living through the end of the enlightenment, actively watching the death of reason and logic in the public space. What a great world we've created for ourselves, I spit on the lot of you.
 
Rubashov said:
Steve critical thinking is a process that takes depending on the individual a decent time to learn.
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I agree. That's why I mentioned the idea with integrating it into public education, starting at the middle school level.

Rubashov said:
Additionally their is no provision within the WTO to penalise nations for using the internet and other means to interfere with other states. There's a bunch of reasons for this, principally its because the "umpire" is the WTO and most of the trade law and rules that the WTO works off comes from the GATT which is now a 40 year old piece of law.
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This is well outside the scope of the WTO, which just focuses on trade disputes. Countries have no obligation to go through the WTO when imposing sanctions for reasons outside of trade. The US has already done this with Iran and North Korea in response to their nuclear weapons development and their involvement in acts of terrorism.
 
MT Steve said:
Truthfully?

I think there should be a large-scale public awareness campaign aimed at educating people about the various, proven misinformation content that includes exactly where it came from. I wouldn't even be opposed to providing strong incentives for social media platforms to provide links to these resources and to make them front-and-center. These resources should also be designed to teach people to critically evaluate information in order to be better equipped to, at a minimum, be skeptical about radical claims they see online.

I've also thought for a long while that the public education system should include a class taken each year from middle school and up that is designed specifically to teach teenagers how to think critically, how to research, and how to discern fact from pure fiction, specifically from an online perspective.
I also think the US should impose extremely harsh economic sanctions on any foreign government that is found to be actively engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining our elections or democratic processes.

The unfortunate reality is that too many politicians are parroting Russian propoganda, so it might be pretty hard for the government to implement these ideas. But for that very reason, I absolutely do not want them to have the power to regulate people's ideas and beliefs. I just don't trust a non-partisan committee to stay truly uncorrupted, especially given how insanely motivated bad actors would be to get a foothold in this committee, and how much money and resources would be poured into accomplishing that.
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Non- partisan FDA

Let’s have a government speech oversight department like the FDA

Example of why it would never work:

View: https://x.com/endtribalism/status/1836127986275193028?s=46&t=BMMZjW7vq0_zwnmLDjNTgQ


I like RFK but even I stated I wouldn’t want him in FDA.
 
MT Steve said:
I agree. That's why I mentioned the idea with integrating it into public education, starting at the middle school level.


This is well outside the scope of the WTO, which just focuses on trade disputes. Countries have no obligation to go through the WTO when imposing sanctions for reasons outside of trade. The US has already done this with Iran and North Korea in response to their nuclear weapons development and their involvement in acts of terrorism.
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Yeah you're right about sanctions, drunk me didn't think of that when i got home from the pub last night.

I'd start it earlier but id add that my most significant education in critical thinking came from the dinner table. I'm 42 and for the most part was just ahead of the funding cuts to education through my schooling, for instance in my last year of primary school the arts, sports, music, computing and woodwork programs were stopped but I'd already had the benefit of 5 years of it. At high school level all this stuff was funded and it wasn't until after I'd graduated that class sizes started to balloon to 30 plus students in a class. So I look at the education that younger people have had and I feel sorry for them, how are you supposed to thrive in an environment where your teacher is spending more time keeping the peace than teaching the class?

At Uni I did modern history, philosophy and logic and politics (specialised in systems theory), it was only in prerequisite honours classes which had minimum grade requirements for entry (B+ from memory) was I in a learning environment where we would have active and interesting discussions of ideas. Outside of those classes most of my piers, the vast majority from expensive private schools were impervious to the ideas they were learning.
 
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Here is Jerome Powell stating that the high influx of border crossings have a direct effect on unemployment numbers.


View: https://x.com/cortessteve/status/1836503242433241451?s=46&t=BMMZjW7vq0_zwnmLDjNTgQ


Again, what I have been saying, this increases the need for Americas already limited resources, to support the people coming here in the millions.

Close the border, pause immigration, get our house in order, open to need base immigration.

It’s not about Race, it’s always about economics. We can’t take everyone, we can’t support everyone, let’s take of our own, then start helping more people.
 
Bucknutz said:
Here is Jerome Powell stating that the high influx of border crossings have a direct effect on unemployment numbers.


View: https://x.com/cortessteve/status/1836503242433241451?s=46&t=BMMZjW7vq0_zwnmLDjNTgQ


Again, what I have been saying, this increases the need for Americas already limited resources, to support the people coming here in the millions.

Close the border, pause immigration, get our house in order, open to need base immigration.

It’s not about Race, it’s always about economics. We can’t take everyone, we can’t support everyone, let’s take of our own, then start helping more people.
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Too bad they couldn't pass the border reform bill that was agreed upon by both sides and would have curtailed a big chunk of this problem. But Trump needed this to be his campaign issue so he instructed his cultists to kill it even after they were the ones who built it. Blame lies directly at Trump's feet.
 
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