A LINE IN THE SAND

Bottom Line: Truth will soon be decided for us.

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-google-crack-down-fake-news-advertising-n684101

I wonder who gets to decide on what news is considered fake.

Will we set up a system of government to decide, then use said system to also validate history books? If you dig deep enough, willfully, every story is true; and false; depending on what your desire was going into it.

Reality isn't as objective as we think it is. There are some basics, but only because we've agreed upon them. Just because a lot of people believe in it, doesn't make it true. Or does it? If you can admit to yourself the disbelief of any possible miracle, then yes, reality is purely objective. Yet the reality is that each and everyone of us have experienced something in life that is absolutely unexplainable. Not to mention the accounts of different individuals over the same event never match up 100%.

Admittedly, there are people out there writing what they believe to be false and portraying it as fact for others to believe in. It would take their admission of guilt to confirm they actually didn't believe in what they were writing. People have the potential to believe anything, especially the pathological liars who write the said 'fake news'.

I personally don't believe in copywrites or patents. Information should be free. Our thoughts themselves are not even our own, but floating around waiting for us to receive them.

We choose to dwell on ideas. We choose to believe in the things we believe in, even if they're false to others.

So, if major social networking providers are choosing for us what is true, they're limiting our social environment and our choices. Is it a good thing? Sure, if there's a legitimate system of checks and balances that look out for our well being; but not if they're getting paid a lot of money to portray propaganda as truth.

If things are beginning to change to include certification of truth, then we're really headed down a dark road. It's enough we're indoctrinated through our educational sources, now it'll pure and obvious indoctrination of social media. (Not to say it wasn't happening before.)

It really doesn't matter what Google and Facebook decide to do with they're polices. Whoever can financially benefit from Adsense is up to them regardless. It's their company.

It's just important to acknowledge what it all actually means. Like when the World Trade Towers were attacked and that led to the Patriot Act. It introduced a system in which peoples rights could be taken away; which is a way worse scenario than this, just similar.