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There is a difference between defining absolute truth and identifying obvious lies.

If a medication is approved and then a new risk factor is identified the issue goes from unproven to validated but if it wasn't based on nothing it was never a lie.

The covid vaccine containing a chip to track you was always a lie.

We don't need a ministry of Truth we need a ministry of obvious bullshit.

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Under the -- very rocky -- assumption that a Ministry of Obvious Bullshit could still avoid scope creep into moderating truth, I still don't think this would fix things. People who actively want to spread bullshit will find a way. It's like spam vs. anti-spam, ads vs. ad-blockers.

People who want to commit murder might still find a way too but we still have laws, police, prosecutors, etc. Perfect should not be the enemy of good.

That's quite the leap from moderating information to a murder investigation

Optimum number of murders is 0. So we take steps to prevent murder. This doesn't make the number of murders 0, but we take the steps because we want to reduce murder as much as possible, because we've agreed it's unacceptable.

Substitute "online misinformation postings" for "murders" above.

The point is just because something is difficult to eliminate is not a good reason to give up trying to eliminate it.

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