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Once more Republicans twiddle their thumbs as right wing conspiracy needlessly kills their base. It seems they've learned nothing at all, which I suppose shouldn't be a surprise.
The easiest and most effective solution would be to just get Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter/X to crack down harder on misinformation.
Optimally, there should even be a sort of "social reputation ranking" system in place to disincentivize online misinformation and hate speech by tying it to real-life ramifications. We sort of already have something like that for job applications, and I'm proud of that, but if we could extend the enforcement and implementation of this kind of thing to, say, transportation, real estate, or banking, that would certainly be a commendable step in the right direction. Ranted about the mask and vaccine mandates in 2020? Good luck buying that car.
Too bad an increasing and worrisome number of these platforms are being owned by right-wing shrinks. Heil Spez and Heil Musk.
I know the CCP in China is way ahead of you. They already have a social credit system. You wanted a passport? Maybe you shouldn't have spoken out against government policy.
It doesn't sound authoritarian at all /s
How does this work if you're smart enough to not post under your full legal name and photo?
My first gut response to this is, "start relentlessly and uncompromisingly telling the truth". I mean, in the attempt to help the public to do the healthy thing and accept vaccinations, there's been a lot of pro-vaccine bigotry. But when you're bigoted, even for the (approximate) truth, who do you convert? Like-minded bigots and weak-willed people-pleasers.
Mixed in with the good efforts for public and individual health are some very sad failures, plus corruption and conflict of interest, and so on. If you want an authoritative body (e.g. CDC, NHS, governing party (haha!)) to be trusted, they have to show themselves trustworthy with the truth.
Sometimes I've seen that done by the officially-promoted medical bodies... sometimes not. And when the tow-the-pro-vaccine-line bigotry shows through, I can't blame people for not buying it, and sticking to their community's narrative, no matter how unfounded: because why should they trust the people mocking them, any more than 'internet majority' trusts the American government to sincerely look after the poor.
Sorry for the rant. Tl;dr, beware of acting like an ad company if you want to be trusted.
Let them get sick and die, then. Win-win
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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