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Technically, the people who believe false information and aren't critical are the problem, but I guess there's not a whole lot we can do about that, other than

• saurik 10y ago
  Yeah: I'd even argue that banning the sale of advertising space "by the click" or even "by the view" (as opposed to "by the action": where someone has to actually purchase the product being advertised before the website gets paid, which is a much better model anyway) would be a safer thing to do to civilization (and would have tons of other really nice effects; we'd probably finally get rid of those articles which are broken into 20 pages, one sentence a page, in the hope of getting more "clicks") than having state-sponsored censorship. I mean: isn't it extremely interesting that we are now walking backwards to this point starting with "due to a lack of this kind of censorship, we allowed a very conservative person to get into office"; it is almost like this is being taken as an "opportunity" to get liberal people who otherwise would balk at this idea to get on board because now it is supposedly on their side and is couched in terms they agree with. I wonder if there are people who noticed this whole thing as their opening to finally broach the subject with Western civilization :/.