Word: censorships
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...create a system of monitoring misinformation, punishing companies who make a habit of it, and informing the public when such violations have occurred. Unfortunately, not only would it be impossible to implement this idea amidst anti-government control screams of conservatives and liberals alike, it would also leave censorship in the hands of those who would benefit from it the most: politicians...
Another idea is to have the struggle against misinformation take place in the world of academia, rather than the forum of public policy. Rather than giving the government the keys to censorship, we should drown misinformation in scholarship. Institutions geared towards enriched education should pave the way by sponsoring research into how people are being affected by the media, how the media might be manipulated to affect the people, and what people can do to be better aware of when this might be happening. This way, when we make the news, we can make it worthy...
...ourselves contradicted, offended, and distressed at every turn. We pay this price because we are aware of the alternative. However sincere the desire of the writers to protect the emotions of rape victims, their call is one we cannot heed. The world has yet to see the act of censorship that was not advanced as an attempt to conserve, defend, or uphold. To paraphrase Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the proper answer to posters you do not like is not fewer posters, it is more. Their article belies a further set of illiberal and unqualified assumptions in its blithe reduction...
...Particularly when it comes to international affairs, media self-censorship is in thick supply while national values are frequently flouted. Americans may be lucky to have the luxury of caring about international affairs, but involvement in and concerns about foreign policy are major drivers come election time...
...democratic too in the sense that the U.S. was able to wage a war of retaliation with minimal coercion of its own citizens. There was no draft, no censorship of the press and--a first--no economic squeeze to pay for the war. On the contrary, Americans were told it was their patriotic duty to carry on consuming...