The problem with services like Facebook is they give everyone equal footing on any topic no matter the person's expertise on the subject, their relationship to

The problem with services like Facebook is they give everyone equal footing on any topic no matter the person's expertise on the subject, their relationship to the matter at hand, or their overall attitude towards discussions in general. This means a black person who's been repeatedly victimized by police has no more credibility than some white dude who thinks everyone's making it up and it's a bunch of cry-babies going on about nothing. It means a cryptography expert can get shouted down by some idiot that's just parroting something they read on CNN that's dangerously misinformed. There's a lot of factors in play here but the "like" button skews the conversations towards things that earn votes which are not necessarily things that are true, accurate, or meaningful. Sometimes the truth is ugly and painful and that's hard to like.