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You can't prevent false ideas spreading by censorship; quite the contrary. The idea that one can create an AI or censor or committee to separate truth from fal

by joggery 10y ago

You can't prevent false ideas spreading by censorship; quite the contrary. The idea that one can create an AI or censor or committee to separate truth from falsehood and then put it in charge is plainly authoritarian.

ben010783 10y ago
What about just keeping out stories that are patently false? If I did an image search for cars, I wouldn't want a boat in there. If I did a search for news, I wouldn't want a fabricated story.
- joggery 10y ago
  Such stories would not go viral.
  - kmtrowbr 10y ago
    That's not true: false, viral stories were the very lifeblood of this election.
    - joggery 10y ago
      I'm sure that it so. However, for a story to spread it has to seem like it might be true to a significant fraction of the readers. So it can't be 'patently false'.
- kmtrowbr 10y ago
  I agree with you. I wouldn't completely remove them, but I would mark the ones from certain sources as having a questionable origin.
- muad 10y ago
  You just want to be spoon fed the "truth" without having to think about it.