There are satellites watching various important events all over the world right now. Satellites that we the public have no access to.

So instead of seeing the events for ourselves we get news from various totally untrustworthy and manipulative news things.

If we could access the satellites then we could see for ourselves, or at least seriously fact check the news things.

I think this would make things better, how about you?

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Controversial take, I know, but I disagree.

    I have a few reasons…

    1. Information overload, the really important stuff will be far easier to hide among the random stuff that people are focusing on.
    2. People are not rational, if social media plattforms have shown us anything, it is that people will latch onto just about anything and form conspiracies, they will laugh in the face of proof and reject rational explanations. A random box building in a forrest? That is the secret temple to Bob, Jesus’ drinking buddy, it can’t just be an old storage shed! A military exercise? LOL, sheep! It is an invasion! And so on.

    I am all for a public entity that would own and operate independent satellites with their own experts interpreting the data to verify claims by the governments, but to give everyone unrestricted access just sounds like a terrible idea

    • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Wouldn’t higher resolution make it much easier to verify and discard conspiracy theories, for those willing?

      Blurry photos and imagery works much better for fantasizing. And is harder to sight and assess.