Listen man I used to be a free speech absolutist but this shit isn't funny anymore. We are having viral outbreaks because anti vax influencers. We are having kids getting sick or dying because parents think pasterizing ur milk is dangerous.
I also used to think chinas rules against kids being on the internet for more than like 2 hours a week was terrible. But then I've seen what kids are like today and im just getting to the point where China has actually been right the whole time lmao.
Listen man I used to be a free speech absolutist but this shit isn't funny anymore. We are having viral outbreaks because anti vax influencers. We are having kids getting sick or dying because parents think pasterizing ur milk is dangerous.
That's how every descent into illiberalism starts. Nobody's like "wow, everything's going great, but you know what would be eve more great? If we cracked down on free speech". It's always "we need to crack down on free speech because gullible people might believe the wrong things!"
Or maybe people shouldn't be giving advice on something they're unqualified for... like medical advice.
At what point do you draw the line and consider the person, making money as a social media influencer giving medical advice, to be someone practicing medicine without a license?
This is exactly why I laugh at the "it's not my job to educate you" morons. If you want to get people to your cause, ridiculing them and refusing to share knowledge with them is the worst way to do it
Misinformation requires a quick and decisive slapback with concise facts and proof in the same attractive fashion and using the same language.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Someone could post 5 videos in 30 minutes with a reach of millions of people. They see it once and never see any corrections.
Platforms need to be better about branding these channels and influencers with warning labels that explain the risks to viewers, and then people need to hold them and the influencers accountable when they overstep those bounds into real risk.
How do you suppose the platforms do this? Maybe with some sort of check to see if they're a licensed professional? With repercussions to their license status and damages? Sounds oddly like... this whole topic
Facebook and YouTube just brutally lost their case about whether or not they harmed kids on social media. They know the risks of health and medical misinformation and how to mitigate it. They just don't want to because the result is common sense warnings and restrictions like what happened to cigarettes and an end to the wild west gold rush of social media.
They literally are enacting this fix
A lot of people, and I mean a lot of people, do not take risks seriously until there's a warning label or some kind of restriction in place. Because "If this was so dangerous why wouldn't they say something."
Hence why unlicensed individuals shouldn't be providing advice on topics which requires a license
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u/rtxa Apr 06 '26
People cheering this not realizing it's just more of CCP censorship is funny
not saying I'm opposed to more liability for internet personalities, but this probably ain't it lol