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I fully agree with your last paragraph. In "sensible" online communities, we flag, we hellban and we hide too much nowadays, creating filter bubbles for ourselv
by ern 10y ago
I fully agree with your last paragraph. In "sensible" online communities, we flag, we hellban and we hide too much nowadays, creating filter bubbles for ourselves, and, more dangerously for those who fall for nonsense, and we allow falsehood to fester. Sure, many claims are absurd, but they need to be debunked, decisively and effectively.
I don't hold a candle for Hillary, but when a person I was speaking to insisted that Trump didn't release his tax returns, and neither did Hillary, I knew he was wrong (she had, in fact released her tax returns) but I didn't have the energy to debunk it.
Henceforth, although I won't engage with trolls, I will try to refute blatant falsehoods gleaned from the internet, especially when perpetuated by people I know IRL. People, especially those who are naive and don't understand how easy it is to publish and perpetuate fake stuff online, have the right to make decisions based on facts, and to understand how much junk there is on the internet.