Max LeibmanIf someone copies another person's post from another platform and pastes it here, should they link to the original, or at least say who they got it from?
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Kit Malone@maxleibman I can't even imagine an argument for doing otherwise that wouldn't amount to "Plagiarism is ok if I found it on Twitter"
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Jonas Schäfer@tomasekeli @maxleibman @thekitmalone I get that on the one hand, we really don't want to give Nazis more of a platform than they already have.
On the other hand, earlier, I had a quite abhorrent (presumably) screenshot from Twitter in my timeline. I didn't know the Fediverse account which posted that screenshot.
I then mentally filed that post under "probably fake news" because it did not link back to the source and I thus couldn't easily verify it.
That's meh and I feel like normalizing not linking to the source trains people in the wrong direction regarding the ability to verify sources.
I think if one is already sharing a screenshot of Nazi content, linking to Nazi content doesn't change much. Am I missing something there?