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The original theories of free speech included basically no censorship on the theory that the marketplace of ideas (along with backlash for non-anonymous awful s
by village-idiot 10y ago
The original theories of free speech included basically no censorship on the theory that the marketplace of ideas (along with backlash for non-anonymous awful statements) would lead us in the direction of the truth, or at least stability.
It appears that the anonymity of the Internet combined with the echo chamber effect has pretty much completely ruined that.
- donatj 10y agoI don't think it's ruined it at all. I think naive people just like living in a bubble and deplore the truth.
- ManFromUranus 10y agoI use the internet and don't often encounter things I didn't expect. Usually what I see on a board, or forum, or sub-reddit etc is the material I expect to see there. Occasionally I see spam or something. Generally the community is probably capable of policing itself on most boards if you give them the tools, downvoting / flagging or something like that. The crux of the problem is, if the internet remains free then it is also free to "fail". If you can only post lollipops and cat pictures guaranteed not to offend then the internet would contain almost nothing. Comments on such an internet would be so milquetoast as to be not worth reading in the first place. You can already filter out almost 90% of the content you don't want to see by simply going to certain websites / forums and not others.