@EU_Commission we are actually building a tool that could help teachers, journalists, and researchers tackle disinformation with a bit of automation: https://groupd.co/ Made in 🇪🇺, of course!
@EU_Commission So long as use of proprietary software is still enforced at schools I can't take them seriously on any statements of "digital footprints", openness, or critical thought. If they can't even freely operate their computers, how do you expect them to freely control their sources of information and be able to think critically of where it comes from?
Let them control their tools first, so they may learn to use their tools effectively.
@EU_Commission
Most teachers have not been trained in - or to teach - #CriticalThinking.
Difficult to teach #Misinformation effectively without this grounding.
Critical Thinking should be part of a child's education from their very first years of school. Yes, that may involve questioning Santa Claus, but their vulnerability & propensity for ideological capture later on begins here.
@useless_idiot@EU_Commission I was wondering when the useful idiots of disinformation will pop-up. Wasn't disappointed, he was the first to comment. Typical homophobic & vaccine + climate change denier... Wish the EU would implement a digital form of ID to flag these kind of accounts, majority spreading russian agenda.
@daniels@useless_idiot@EU_Commission How would "a digital form of ID to flag these kind of accounts" solve anything? It seems your problem is "these here people don't agree with me and I want them to stop doing that", I don't think de-anonymization is going to fix that. If anything, it'll hurt democracy as a whole as it will stifle public discourse altogether.
Exactly! Real democracy is thinking, saying, and doing exactly whatever the richest and most powerful people want, getting locked out from society, or getting locked up!
In all fairness: I don't hate the EU, I just think they should be held accountable, do a better job, don't get involved in propaganda one way or the other, and stop all kinds of other nonsense. Maybe go back to the EEC and rebuild into a better direction.
But those institutes seem to be unable to do one job right, and have to sprawl out into all useless directions, so we end up with this shit and no proper international trains.
@useless_idiot@bonifartius@EU_Commission@daniels I like the EU as a concept, it can be a very strong force to do many good things. And some good things have been achieved, the schengen area, the ability to use my phone when I cross a border, standardized charging over USB-C. But then they have retardedly dumb ideas as well which they should be held accountable for. If you don't hold them accountable for their bad ideas, they'll never change them to good ideas (or drop them altogether if it turned out to be really dumb).
It truly is the basis of democracy to be able to speak up freely and criticize any actions the politicians take, and when needed, force them to change course.
I'd like the EU to continue existing, but I do acknowledge things need to change for it to continue being a net positive for us citizens.
Nah, I am the Useless Idiot, not working for anyone's agenda, least of all for the Kremlin. Which you would know, if your thought process was more complicated than: "Not sucking up to EU -> bad -> pro Russia".
But don't worry, surely people like me will soon get the same treatment in the EU as dissidents get in Russia. And Obsequious Water Carriers like you will be safe forever!
@useless_idiot@EU_Commission one can only hope science and common sense prevails again worldwide and mentally challenged people unable to grasp basic proven, tried and tested scientific facts get treated in specialized asylums instead of being offered a free access to social platforms where they can spew their delusions and hallucinations.
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