{"id":79181,"date":"2021-08-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79181"},"modified":"2021-08-12T04:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T09:35:52","slug":"ideas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79181","title":{"rendered":"Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Big Left &#8211; via its wholly owned subsidiaries, Big Government and Big Media &#8211; have gotten much exercised about &#8220;misinformation&#8221; lately.  As distinct from &#8220;disinformation&#8221; &#8211; someone actively telling you something that is untrue &#8211; &#8220;misinformation&#8221; is someone telling you anything they <em>disagree with<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rightly or wrongly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This campaign has taken many forms &#8211; a <em>Scarlet L<\/em>ette<em>r<\/em>-style whisper campaign on public media, active censorship by private-sector tech companies acting in concert with Big Left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t think Big Left isn&#8217;t getting ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"China: Solution for public using mobile phones to film\/Sci-fi film coming to reality in China?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3EVv4lTCwdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Left &#8211; via its wholly owned subsidiaries, Big Government and Big Media &#8211; have gotten much exercised about &#8220;misinformation&#8221; lately. As distinct from &#8220;disinformation&#8221; &#8211; someone actively telling you something that is untrue &#8211; &#8220;misinformation&#8221; is someone telling you anything they disagree with. Rightly or wrongly. This campaign has taken many forms &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79182,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79181\/revisions\/79182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}