When it comes to media there should be more responsibility required above the 1st amendment because of their power to influence on a massive scale. The media alone can destabilize society. They are a liability if left without any ethical restrictions. This isn't about someone's opinion being expressed on air, this is the deliberate tampering of a video for the sole purpose to mislead and discredit and it should be seen as criminal.
Always been on position of "everyone should be responsible for their own fact checking'
But I am also beginning to see your point about how when lies are allowed to flow without punishment, it becomes a matter of brute forcing the public conscience until you come up with a lie that slips by.
I am a listener of Lotus Eater Podcast, they just covered a couple of feminists from the 70s to 90s eras coming clean about how they've spent 20 years deliberately lying
blood boiling to read when I consider the sheer amount of damage this woman's lie did to society world wide, the number of lives she ruined by leading women away from the path of family...
I would at this point very much support measures that would allow to punish people and businesses merely for the fact of uttering lies. Only reason why I have not quite made the jump to this other platform is that we are currently living under regimes of evil, who are themselves trying to pose as being of this position except they wish to be the unilateral judges of what is and isn't a lie.
this platform depends on there being such a thing as a verifiable fact, and I am not quite sure those exist in this age when it comes to any meaningful thing.
Right now I am for example desperately looking for such 'verifiable facts' to prove to my employer that mandatory vaccination is wrong or unnecessary or risky. All I am finding is opinions, allegations and the word of other people that I cannot confirm myself.
Mandatory vaccination is morally wrong because it discriminates on a group of people. That is a fact. The problem is that they have convinced themselves that this discrimination is ok because they think the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, but we are not few, we are in fact at least half or more. I believe their vax numbers are inflated. And if not, 100 million unvaxed Americans is still many people, and there will be consequences when this many people refuse to participate in their game and are forced to defend themselves.
Mandatory vaccination is unnecessary when a vaccine works as it should. When a vaccine is not effective, you end up with unethical policies like this that protect the company instead of the people.
Mandatory vaccination is risky because it comes with well documented risk. And therefore, where there is risk there must be choice. I will not set myself on fire to keep you warm. An antivaxer's anthem to try to get through to people what they are asking of them.
This topic isn't something that requires verifiable facts to try and win an argument with your employer. Part of the problem with the world today is everyone thinks they need to find someone who is more "qualified" than themselves to tell them "what to think", but when it comes to issues of free will and discrimination, we need to use our common sense and critical thinking skills, as well as empathy and moral standards to make the right choice for ourselves. We are supposed to know HOW to think for ourselves, and not be told WHAT to think by others.
because lying and misleading never was illegal. It's a good thing actually because otherwise it would be hard to have a 1st Amendment.
Problem is that a lot of people decided to pretend like all these MSN sources are somehow too noble to intentionally deceive
When it comes to media there should be more responsibility required above the 1st amendment because of their power to influence on a massive scale. The media alone can destabilize society. They are a liability if left without any ethical restrictions. This isn't about someone's opinion being expressed on air, this is the deliberate tampering of a video for the sole purpose to mislead and discredit and it should be seen as criminal.
Media didn't fair well during Nuremburg trials. Here's hoping!
Always been on position of "everyone should be responsible for their own fact checking'
But I am also beginning to see your point about how when lies are allowed to flow without punishment, it becomes a matter of brute forcing the public conscience until you come up with a lie that slips by.
I am a listener of Lotus Eater Podcast, they just covered a couple of feminists from the 70s to 90s eras coming clean about how they've spent 20 years deliberately lying
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/05/26/she-wrote-fake-news-for-cosmopolitan-and-now-regrets-misleading-women-on-feminism/
blood boiling to read when I consider the sheer amount of damage this woman's lie did to society world wide, the number of lives she ruined by leading women away from the path of family...
I would at this point very much support measures that would allow to punish people and businesses merely for the fact of uttering lies. Only reason why I have not quite made the jump to this other platform is that we are currently living under regimes of evil, who are themselves trying to pose as being of this position except they wish to be the unilateral judges of what is and isn't a lie.
this platform depends on there being such a thing as a verifiable fact, and I am not quite sure those exist in this age when it comes to any meaningful thing.
Right now I am for example desperately looking for such 'verifiable facts' to prove to my employer that mandatory vaccination is wrong or unnecessary or risky. All I am finding is opinions, allegations and the word of other people that I cannot confirm myself.
Mandatory vaccination is morally wrong because it discriminates on a group of people. That is a fact. The problem is that they have convinced themselves that this discrimination is ok because they think the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, but we are not few, we are in fact at least half or more. I believe their vax numbers are inflated. And if not, 100 million unvaxed Americans is still many people, and there will be consequences when this many people refuse to participate in their game and are forced to defend themselves.
Mandatory vaccination is unnecessary when a vaccine works as it should. When a vaccine is not effective, you end up with unethical policies like this that protect the company instead of the people.
Mandatory vaccination is risky because it comes with well documented risk. And therefore, where there is risk there must be choice. I will not set myself on fire to keep you warm. An antivaxer's anthem to try to get through to people what they are asking of them.
This topic isn't something that requires verifiable facts to try and win an argument with your employer. Part of the problem with the world today is everyone thinks they need to find someone who is more "qualified" than themselves to tell them "what to think", but when it comes to issues of free will and discrimination, we need to use our common sense and critical thinking skills, as well as empathy and moral standards to make the right choice for ourselves. We are supposed to know HOW to think for ourselves, and not be told WHAT to think by others.