ideally this would work, but if you look at SM you will realize how much misinformation is out there, and how harmful it's becoming. You likely already know that some significant portion of youth get their "news" from TikTok. None of this is vetted. Some of it is real. Some of it is AI generated. So now we have platforms with absolutely no oversight. It's not really equivalent to Wikipedia, which is already suffering from revisionist histories manicured by those with both an agenda and time on their hands.
I don't think of this as "government controlling censorship" -- I thought it would become universally important to the fabric of society that some modicum of fact-checking be exercised across all information-trading platforms.
Today´s youth also have parents and go to school, so hopefully they are not just at the mercy of TikTok for their education. (They seem more interested in making insipid videos on Tik Tok than anything else.) What is more frightening is the government censuring social media and compelling the legacy media to also carry their water.
It is far deeper level of scared if the government controls social media censorship.
Here’s a novel idea -stay off social media. Works like a charm for me.
ideally this would work, but if you look at SM you will realize how much misinformation is out there, and how harmful it's becoming. You likely already know that some significant portion of youth get their "news" from TikTok. None of this is vetted. Some of it is real. Some of it is AI generated. So now we have platforms with absolutely no oversight. It's not really equivalent to Wikipedia, which is already suffering from revisionist histories manicured by those with both an agenda and time on their hands.
I don't think of this as "government controlling censorship" -- I thought it would become universally important to the fabric of society that some modicum of fact-checking be exercised across all information-trading platforms.
What is truly harmful is today's youth's inability to use critical thinking skills.
Today´s youth also have parents and go to school, so hopefully they are not just at the mercy of TikTok for their education. (They seem more interested in making insipid videos on Tik Tok than anything else.) What is more frightening is the government censuring social media and compelling the legacy media to also carry their water.