Large majority of polled American support having a Ministry of Truth to censor possibly false information
73% of all respondents said they support removing posts that probably have false information
Source: Poll: Americans aren’t into Elon Musk’s Twitter free speech campaign
Old: The response to speech you do not like is more speech:
In: Let’s appoint a Ministry of Truth to track down and censor that which, at that very instant, someone thinks, is possibly false information.
A majority even favored censoring “heated political rhetoric”.
I have a different idea. Let each of us select our own filtering options.
- I select no filtering and see everything.
- I select let the platform decide for me.
- I select an optional third party to decide for me.
- I mark messages I do not want to see and an AI machine learning algorithms learns about my preferences and gradually auto censors what it thinks I prefer not to see.
It is entirely possible to let the user decide for themselves if they wish a censored news feed, or not, and if they choose a censored news feed, they could select who would do the censorship. This leaves the end user in control which seems far better than a US government Disinformation Governance Board, or censors at Facebook and Twitter.