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First of all, I'll say that I _obviously_ don't want to live in some sort of Orwellian, Ministry of Truth, 1984-esque dystopia. However, I think there's an unnecessary amount of fearmongering going on currently about organizations pushing back against disinformation. There certainly is a disinformation problem and from a U.S. perspective it is quite obviously a foreign adversary and malicious actor problem.

It seems that this Mozilla article is too vague, open-ended, and short to be processed correctly. I personally interpreted the article differently than you did, which doesn't mean either of us interpreted it incorrectly.




I'm sure you don't want to have minitrue. Just as I am sure most people who made Russian revolution didn't really intend to have Gulag, Joseph Stalin, Hungary of 1956 and Prague of 1968. These things however have certain logic of its own, and gatekeeping tends to unfold into the direction of minitrue. That's just the internal logic of the things - and we can see it unfolding right now. First it was promoting the rightthinkers, then demoting the wrongthinkers, then banning the wrongthinkers from a platform, then banning the wrongthinkers from all platforms, then banning all mentions of wrongthinkers, then banning services that allow wrongthinkers, then destroying all services that allow wrongthinkers... Pretty soon there's just no place where wrongthink can happen, and how it's different from minitrue? That it's a trillion-dollar corporation that is doing it, not the government? DO I really care? The result is the same.




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