Censorship

[Guy Chamberlin]

I've been really happy with my Ground News subscription, for what it's worth. Shows you blind spots in reporting across political ideology, and helps you sort through the political leanings and factuality scores of multiple different sources on any news story.

Ground News? That's a new one. I'll look into it.

This reminds me of another problem with digital news. If someone wants me to actually pay for higher quality reporting I'm likely to abandon the site. I'm still stuck in the original appeal of the internet, where everything is free.

I'm slowly vetting my choices and picking my spots. 

 

[teachercd]

But I'm pretty sure we all agreed it's not the same way at all.

If were talking about getting news from other people, that dates back to the Neolithic era. 

Okay, that sounds good.

 

[nic]

But how does surrounding them, and others in public, with more options to come across questionable things make the internet and social media better?  That's my question.

How does allowing more trash, that most normal people don't want to be exposed to, make those sites better?  Why are normal people cheering this on?

More trash on social media makes it worse, but it's already awful, and the censorship ended up going way overboard to the point where people couldn't even express an opinion that the content moderators, or our government  disagreed with. I would rather get rid of that. 

 

[nic]

Specifically to you, Nic, does an uncensored, un-fact-checked social media sound like any less of a s#!tshow? 

Honest question: do they allow the n-word on X or Facebook? 

Agree with most of your statements above. If they could get unbiased fact checkers it would be better, but 2020 showed us it was broken. Big time. I already cited several big misses in another post. I am fine with flagging posts. Banning got out of hand. Opinions, expressed as such probably shouldn't be flagged. Just make fun of the person like we did back in the day, if you want. No liable either. 

I am only on LinkedIn. No idea about the N-word on platforms. That word is still used and accepted in the black community right? If so, does that mean one black poster using it for another is OK?

 

[commando]

censorship?    don't speak badly about this administration or you will pay

https://www.newsweek.com/popular-weather-forecaster-fired-over-elon-musk-nazi-salute-remark-2019493

 

[BigRedBuster]

Free speech!!!  Free speech!!!!

oh, but not for you if you say something mean about me. 
 

 

[BigRedBuster]

I remember being told I was wrong when I said Elon spreads misinformation. 
 

Here he is doing it again.  
 

 

[commando]

would the white house banning the use of the word "felon" count as censorship?   

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

I remember being told I was wrong when I said Elon spreads misinformation. 
 

Here he is doing it again.  
 

Elon Musks tweets are the lowest form of brain slop imaginable. 

I truly mean this: if you think Elon Musk is serious and isn't brain rot farming stupid people, you are an idiot.

 

[teachercd]

I have zero doubt there is TONS of money that is not well spent.  I think we all agree on that.

I worked in a school once and we got a new business manager.  I knew him a little bit before he got the job so we had conversations that were more open.  

I know this is anecdotal but within the first two weeks he found out that there were 7 different cell phone plans being used at the school and an account with 20,000 dollars in it that no one knew what it was for.  Oh, we also had something like 4 Omaha World Herald subscriptions, that all covered 7 days a week, even though on the weekends we are not at school.

This was a small school with like 600 students and a staff of 40-50.  I can only imagine what it must be like for a big place.  

The anecdotalness of it all was insane. 

 

[funhusker]

I have zero doubt there is TONS of money that is not well spent.  I think we all agree on that.

I worked in a school once and we got a new business manager.  I knew him a little bit before he got the job so we had conversations that were more open.  

I know this is anecdotal but within the first two weeks he found out that there were 7 different cell phone plans being used at the school and an account with 20,000 dollars in it that no one knew what it was for.  Oh, we also had something like 4 Omaha World Herald subscriptions, that all covered 7 days a week, even though on the weekends we are not at school.

This was a small school with like 600 students and a staff of 40-50.  I can only imagine what it must be like for a big place.  

The anecdotalness of it all was insane. 

And we all agree that that waste should be found and fixed.  But only idiots will fire all the teachers and custodians while the Superintendent figures out how to cancel the cell phone plans and the fire the paperboy.

 

[teachercd]

And we all agree that that waste should be found and fixed.  But only idiots will fire all the teachers and custodians while the Superintendent figures out how to cancel the cell phone plans and the fire the paperboy.

Yeah, I mean school districts will sort of do that but it is more like offering early retirements.  I was just talking to two coaches the other day and here is what they told me.

Coach A:  Took an early retirement with a lump sum of 80K.  Dude already has a new teaching gig lined up for next year in a different distrcit!

Coach B:  Doing one more year and will take an early retirement with a 55K lump sum.

YES I KNOW THIS IS ANECDOTAL AND NOT THE EXACT SAME THING.  I AM JUST GIVING AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THINGS COULD BE DONE.

 

[funhusker]

Yeah, I mean school districts will sort of do that but it is more like offering early retirements.  I was just talking to two coaches the other day and here is what they told me.

Coach A:  Took an early retirement with a lump sum of 80K.  Dude already has a new teaching gig lined up for next year in a different distrcit!

Coach B:  Doing one more year and will take an early retirement with a 55K lump sum.

YES I KNOW THIS IS ANECDOTAL AND NOT THE EXACT SAME THING.  I AM JUST GIVING AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THINGS COULD BE DONE.

The early retirement actually makes sense.  Does the district continue to pay that teacher/coach with 25 years exp over 100k for 3 more years, or bring in a young teacher for 45k?  
 

that buyout pays for itself in 1-2 years.

But then there are things like my principal telling me to pick out new furniture for my classroom even though I actually like my current set up.  The shirry part is, when I help with summer maintenance we are going to throw all of hat perfectly good furniture away!

 

[teachercd]

The early retirement actually makes sense.  Does the district continue to pay that teacher/coach with 25 years exp over 100k for 3 more years, or bring in a young teacher for 45k?  
 

that buyout pays for itself in 1-2 years.

Oh yeah, I agree.  Smart move.  The Bell West coach was "on the fence" about it for like 14 seconds.  Haha

Other dude may or may not be in a district you are familiar with.  He was sort of torn but I think he said his youngest was just about done with school.  

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Yeah, I mean school districts will sort of do that but it is more like offering early retirements.  I was just talking to two coaches the other day and here is what they told me.

Coach A:  Took an early retirement with a lump sum of 80K.  Dude already has a new teaching gig lined up for next year in a different distrcit!

Coach B:  Doing one more year and will take an early retirement with a 55K lump sum.

YES I KNOW THIS IS ANECDOTAL AND NOT THE EXACT SAME THING.  I AM JUST GIVING AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THINGS COULD BE DONE.

I know you say you aren't the least bit bothered by any responses to your posts, but my recent use of the word "anecdotal" to describe an opinion of yours appears to have pushed you over the edge.