UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give citizens a truth score
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The could be using that as a secret wedge, but if we're lying about this on the internet then that only gives support to their misdirection.
> whose content is viewed more widely than a minimum threshold to be defined and set by OFCOM.
Given the recent history of UK online regulation [2], I think it's save to assume the "minimum threshold" will be extremely low.
[1] https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/onlinesafety_rm_rep_0708.pdf [2] https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-...
https://www.ladbible.com/news/man-arrested-for-organising-st...
Anyway the Politicians with the help of the media are engaged in malicious communications all the time, never seen the Police enforce that act on the political class, suggesting the Police are bias and interfering in politics like we have just seen with Labour's Keir Starmer and Beergate.
On the point of this proposal, I think it will kill off elements of the British Humour... or not!
The reality is that governments are captured by those with capital at the benefit of them and them only
Would of course be awesome if Facebook mods would assign scores to users and government would collect that data to determine pension and health care service quality. No real patriot could be against this.
The idea that there's no objective truth is a cynical position pushed by people attempting to convince you of untrue things.
Reality is what you and I agree it is.
If you think the world is flat, and I think the world is flat, then for us: the world is flat.
Disagree? Well then, we don't share the same reality.
Claim we don't share the same reality if you like, repeat it a hundred times, but if I punch you in the nose, it will break in both our realities. And when you protest, my repeated assertion that your nose doesn't hurt in MY reality is unlikely to cut much ice with you.
Your philosophy holds no practical value.
As for age - it's already there, you can't serve underage content to minors. As for "truthiness" - I'd say this part makes a lot of sense, given the current pandemic of fake news.