I can't imagine where this might be happening. Certainly not on some billionaire's platform. /s
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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But this was only one of Hinkle’s untruths: in the same 28 October posting he said that half of the Israelis killed during the Hamas assault were soldiers, many of whom died “during tank shelling”.
I never able found the claim on this, iirc the soldier is on the low side. Though there's claim by a survivor that a lot of civilian died during the crossfire, by the hand of reckless IDF. They also shelled the home in Be'eri, though there's no way to say how many of civilians caught in the shelling. This tell some part of story that IDF did not care about civilian safety when fighting against Hamas, but it did not say that Hamas only kill soldier.
They taking about lemmy and mastodon?
poorly regulated online platforms
Oh no! Not poorly regulated online platforms! Please regulators, come and save us from each other!
Some accountability for people creating and spreading propaganda would solve many of these problems.
What problems?
people creating and spreading propaganda
That won't ever stop.
Murder will never stop either. Doesn't mean we stop punishing it.
But it does mean it will never be "solved".
Sure, but very reduced, because theres now consequences to being a lying piece of shit.
Thats one of the main points behing punishing crime.
Or maybe we should stop punishing crime because it wont stop it anyway?
we
I'm not part of your "we".
maybe we should stop punishing crime because it wont stop it anyway?
"Crime" is whatever the powers that be decide it to be. Unfortunately the powers that be are greedy and act in their own interest rather than in the interests of the population at large.
Criminalising online words is not the way to deal with disinformation. It's a simple minded, knee jerk reaction and a dangerous threat to freedom of speech and freedom of thought.
The appropriate way to deal with disinformation is to invest in education, particularly education of reason and critical thinking.
But that won't happen because a population of educated people capable of reason and critical thinking goes very much against the interests of the powers that be.
The problem of you.
You flatter me.