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Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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[–] 3h5Hne7t1K@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

You gimuyd are on some wikd shit im history

[–] erranto@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As much as I hate disinformation on the internet and witnessed what it can do to people. I am very cautious when governments place themselves as the arbiters of truth. we should fight for the freedom of speech even when it is contrary to our beliefs. disinformation should be fraught against with facts and transparency.

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

The government has a process called the courts where they decide on what was the "truth" of the matter. Hell, they'll even restrict your speech during a trial, jurors included. The trick here is you give power to the people to decide, arguably this is playing out in our school systems as well over books.

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Look, idgaf about musk or anything he does but why is it on him to fix misinformation on x? Why is it the job of the platform owner? Id really like it if someone explained this to me.

The way I see it, content on these platforms is user generated, misinformed or not, propaganda of one side or the other... If someone decides to put up a plain old text document and let everyone modify it, should the owner of said document really be liable for what others put on it? What if the document has no owner and is hosted in a peer to peer fashion? Who do we give 24 hours to fix it then?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's really just more of a question of moderation of the platform and censorship of speech

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