Re: [Bug-gne]the problem of illegal content vs. freedom

[Mike Warren]

Jean-Daniel Fekete <address@hidden> writes:

> People are free to vote and you should believe in democracy -- I
> mean real democracy, direct democracy.

There is a difference between democracy and simple 50%+1 voting.

> If somebody else wants to write his view on foreign politics in the
> US and he is knowledgeable, he'll get a "yes".

>From half? The goal of Tom's voting system, I think, is just to get
rid of stuff which is unanimously thought to be junk; it shouldn't be
meant as a way to get rid of ``unpopular'' opinion pieces, etcetera:
that is a job for the classifiers.

> Articles on revisionism are more a problem.  Revisionists have
> developped techniques to reference books and articles from their
> closed world.  Analysing their writings, they always write the same
> and reference the same books.  You could challenge them, but it
> would take a serious historian a lot of time, just because their
> internal litterature is hard to find and accurate sources are hard
> to consult.  On this issue, you need to rely on a voting system and
> hope for a rejection.

I disagree. You need to accept that article and let classifiers deal
with it. Hopefully, you'd get another article which soundly refutes
the wrong information...

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