go-nads!
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It is scary and it highlights how unfettered social media disinformation can harm democracy. The use of the internet has been essentially unregulated for too long and the abuse of this is a real attack on democracy.
You have foreign powers meddling in other countries politics in a way and influence that is unprecedented and you have “insider” factions spreading lies that repeated become fact.
I think it is time for massively increased censorship. If a profile is set up essentially to spout political dogma it should have to be registered and sign up to a fair use policy, breaches of that policy would lead to removal of the profile. Any political profile set up should need to be registered to at least one individual or recognised organisation with a proof of identity such as a payment authorisation being necessary. Preaching of hate can then quickly be prosecuted.
As it stands the internet experiment is failing society and it is too easily exploited by those with more sinister agendas.
Any accredited political profile or organisation for example an MP or prospective MP, party or branch of a party needs to understand that they cannot spread disinformation or spread malicious propaganda that does not conform agreed standards.
I am referring to the last election process in this country where the winning party approached the campaign with baseless attacks on the opposition and a level of deceit that was extraordinary when fact checked.
Make no mistake, unless the whole social media and internet approach to political debate is cleaned up we will lose democracy as it currently stands.
The internet should have led to increased political expression and debate but when you look at mankind’s ability to debase it’s hardly a shock that it has been highjacked and led down the current path.
Power, money, influence corrupts, it is a cancer. Allowing individuals the influence and power they currently are able to hoard is not good for society. Drastic curbs now need to be considered.
You have foreign powers meddling in other countries politics in a way and influence that is unprecedented and you have “insider” factions spreading lies that repeated become fact.
I think it is time for massively increased censorship. If a profile is set up essentially to spout political dogma it should have to be registered and sign up to a fair use policy, breaches of that policy would lead to removal of the profile. Any political profile set up should need to be registered to at least one individual or recognised organisation with a proof of identity such as a payment authorisation being necessary. Preaching of hate can then quickly be prosecuted.
As it stands the internet experiment is failing society and it is too easily exploited by those with more sinister agendas.
Any accredited political profile or organisation for example an MP or prospective MP, party or branch of a party needs to understand that they cannot spread disinformation or spread malicious propaganda that does not conform agreed standards.
I am referring to the last election process in this country where the winning party approached the campaign with baseless attacks on the opposition and a level of deceit that was extraordinary when fact checked.
Make no mistake, unless the whole social media and internet approach to political debate is cleaned up we will lose democracy as it currently stands.
The internet should have led to increased political expression and debate but when you look at mankind’s ability to debase it’s hardly a shock that it has been highjacked and led down the current path.
Power, money, influence corrupts, it is a cancer. Allowing individuals the influence and power they currently are able to hoard is not good for society. Drastic curbs now need to be considered.