Sometimes moral panics emerge, sometimes they are engineered. The Nazi boogeyman is the kind of moral panic that is engineered, and seeking to make the world safe by preventing dangerous thoughts and misinformation is far more tyrannical than the alleged boogeyman such moral panics, including this one, actually represent.
Freaking Out About Nazi Content On The Internet Archive Is Totally Missing The Point
From techdirt.com
2021-07-28 12:25:39
Mike Masnick
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from the moral-panics dept
The moral panics around anyone finding “bad” content online are getting out of control. The latest is a truly silly article in the San Francisco Chronicle whining about the fact that there is Nazi content available on the Internet Archive, written by the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, Steven Stalinsky, who is quite perturbed that his own personal content moderation desires are not how the Internet Archive moderates.
