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Why do you allow misinformation communities like endlesswar? (quokk.au)

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Seems to be purely to post misinformation with repeated claims that Russia is innocent and the US caused the Ukraine situation, that they're stopping Ukraine from agreeing to Russia's super amazing peacedeals, etc.

This is the sort of garbage one would expect to find on ML or Hex, is CA intended to be the same low quality instance?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, we should not tolerate intolerance, "No Bigotry" is rule #1 here so if you see that then please report it. Misinformation, though? That's the main thing OP is talking about and they gave a few examples, they are propaganda but not intolerance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I feel like you are arguing with me about OP points. I am not sure if it is a Lemmy error, but my comment you replied to first

I do not understand people here defending misinformation/intolerance as a merit of discussion. The dichotomy of naive or complicity.

People spreading misinformation and intolerance are not here for healthy arguments, you just need to check their history to see their dishonesty and ill temper.

In the meanwhile, accounts like the one OP highlighted are just creating trouble for mods of other instances to solve.

I don't feel like you are here defending that person's acts or being complicit, neither trying to defend misinformation/intolerant with malicious intent, or being disingenuous with semantics. So, for the healthy discussion, I continue.

You don't need to go too far in that person's history to see the examples of their dishonesty and ill temper, if that is the hill you chose to defend. You might need some special privilege to see their removed content in other instances.

From your message, sorry if I am mistaken your words the first time, but I imagine now that by that you were not saying intolerance, but misinformation, as in:

who is the arbiter of "misinformation"

In that case,

Canada might be a little behind on misinformation laws, it was always behind when the subject involves technology. But they define very well their types (MDM they call), qualify damages and campaign to raise awareness and minimize its effects. https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/how-identify-misinformation-disinformation-and-malinformation-itsap00300 https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/online-disinformation.html

"Misinformation" is serious, causes harm, and should not be used interchangeably with "agreement".

Just because OP is complaining about misinformation, it does not make it any less severe than intolerance, when used for the same goal - to cause harm.

Even before technology, we had laws and procedures about harmful discourse, be them intolerance or misinformation, it just makes things different.

That is why I was suggesting a discussion of well-defined and transparent methods to deal with them, that should be constantly reviewed and improved.

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