I believe in right-sized government, which I'm sure we can all agree on if we move on quickly.
That said, complicated and sophisticated laws benefit those who can afford lawyers, not those who can't. While both political parties in the US are overflowing with lawyers and could thus take advantage of whatever laws get passed, social media platforms, at least when they're starting up, aren't in the same position. Any sophisticated law could easily be used to silence sites such as this one, which is happening in Russia.
Rather than thinking people have time to distinguish between fact and rumor in the last minute, you can certainly suggest to people that those who are releasing stories too late to be verified probably have an agenda other than educating the public. Also pointing out that there is a big difference between CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian on one hand and RT, some random guy's facebook, and a blog by someone you don't know on the other. While Western media has their biases (read about something in both The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian to see this), they do tend to stick to the facts. Sometimes they're wrong, but they make an honest effort, unlike quite a few sources. If CNN is missing out on some huge story on social media, such as Pizzagate or the charges that Trump is a pedophile, there is probably a good reason. This sticks to actual education, which we can probably all agree on as well.
Complicated and sophisticated circumstances can't have anything other than expensive oversight. Complexity ups the ante.
When I had some money in my past I commissioned a cabinet-maker friend of mine to make me a bespoke bit of specific work-furniture. I had all sorts of grand designs I presented to him, He looked at my favourite idea, which was pretty and suited my needs completely, sucked his teeth, then said: "curves cost more" and then told me how much more, and why. I opted for straight edges.
We live in a system of such complexity that when someone opts to simplify, you lose the thing you had at the beginning and which was the point of it all in the first place. It's called civilisation. And it has developed alongside technology. And it has to be paid for precisely because the advantages it confers are unimaginable to the first humans developing it.
It really is fucking complicated and chaotic, and the human-created Frankenstein monster of civilisation needs feeding. Because if it dies, so do a huge number of us: the slightly insane self-deluded parasites of the host beast of civilisation. (Because, ontologically, even the idea of machine intelligence indicates that civilisation can continue without us.)
That said, complicated and sophisticated laws benefit those who can afford lawyers, not those who can't. While both political parties in the US are overflowing with lawyers and could thus take advantage of whatever laws get passed, social media platforms, at least when they're starting up, aren't in the same position. Any sophisticated law could easily be used to silence sites such as this one, which is happening in Russia.
Rather than thinking people have time to distinguish between fact and rumor in the last minute, you can certainly suggest to people that those who are releasing stories too late to be verified probably have an agenda other than educating the public. Also pointing out that there is a big difference between CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian on one hand and RT, some random guy's facebook, and a blog by someone you don't know on the other. While Western media has their biases (read about something in both The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian to see this), they do tend to stick to the facts. Sometimes they're wrong, but they make an honest effort, unlike quite a few sources. If CNN is missing out on some huge story on social media, such as Pizzagate or the charges that Trump is a pedophile, there is probably a good reason. This sticks to actual education, which we can probably all agree on as well.
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When I had some money in my past I commissioned a cabinet-maker friend of mine to make me a bespoke bit of specific work-furniture. I had all sorts of grand designs I presented to him, He looked at my favourite idea, which was pretty and suited my needs completely, sucked his teeth, then said: "curves cost more" and then told me how much more, and why. I opted for straight edges.
We live in a system of such complexity that when someone opts to simplify, you lose the thing you had at the beginning and which was the point of it all in the first place. It's called civilisation. And it has developed alongside technology. And it has to be paid for precisely because the advantages it confers are unimaginable to the first humans developing it.
It really is fucking complicated and chaotic, and the human-created Frankenstein monster of civilisation needs feeding. Because if it dies, so do a huge number of us: the slightly insane self-deluded parasites of the host beast of civilisation. (Because, ontologically, even the idea of machine intelligence indicates that civilisation can continue without us.)
But i meander...
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