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Why do you allow misinformation communities like endlesswar? (quokk.au)
submitted 20 hours ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Deleting a community is worse than Russia invading Ukraine?

Huh good to know.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If we examine the two possible actions: (1) banning the community, and (2) not banning the community. Then we can see that neither (1) nor (2) have influence on Russia invading Ukraine. That has already happened and is happening.

Both actions, (1) and (2), are not worse than the invasion.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Russian propaganda has an impact on it.

Deliberately allowing yourself to be a hub to spread it is ridiculous.

[–] iii@mander.xyz -1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Russian propaganda has an impact on it.

I totally agree.

Deliberately allowing yourself to be a hub to spread it is ridiculous.

I think this argument is our main point of disagreement. In my opinion, censorship is a bad way to address misinformation. It creates parallel groups of thinking, each, from their point of view, growing more confident that they know all.