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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if we need some kind of middle ground like Twitter where you leave the content up, with a big banner saying "this content is bullshit and here is the evidence"?

While I agree that harmful information should probably be hidden so that impressionable people don't act on it, I also don't like non-experts being the arbiters of censorship.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lock the thread with a pinned comment to some actual evidence proving them wrong would be the closest alternative we have.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Yeah, but here the Admins had to step in because the mods would do the exact opposite, so that's also not really an option.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and that's... Ok.
But I'd like something that was more visible without going into the comments, so people could see it in their feed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Not to mention how much it puts on the shoulders of moderators to have to fact check every post/comment and find reliable sources to ensure false information isn't spread. It would likely be unsustainable without a lot of funding if the platform expands furrher over time.

[–] possiblylinux127 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ideally the mod should've pinned a comment with the risks and a disclaimer about the serious ethical concerns. They instead deleted legitimate information.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

One of the pinned posts on the community is literally a list of studies about the topic?