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Why do you allow misinformation communities like endlesswar? (quokk.au)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems to be purely to post misinformation with repeated claims that Russia is innocent and the US caused the Ukraine situation, that they're stopping Ukraine from agreeing to Russia's super amazing peacedeals, etc.

This is the sort of garbage one would expect to find on ML or Hex, is CA intended to be the same low quality instance?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Deleting a community is worse than Russia invading Ukraine?

Huh good to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we examine the two possible actions: (1) banning the community, and (2) not banning the community. Then we can see that neither (1) nor (2) have influence on Russia invading Ukraine. That has already happened and is happening.

Both actions, (1) and (2), are not worse than the invasion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Russian propaganda has an impact on it.

Deliberately allowing yourself to be a hub to spread it is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Russian propaganda has an impact on it.

I totally agree.

Deliberately allowing yourself to be a hub to spread it is ridiculous.

I think this argument is our main point of disagreement. In my opinion, censorship is a bad way to address misinformation. It creates parallel groups of thinking, each, from their point of view, growing more confident that they know all.