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We can’t all be ideologically motivated to the point of societal suicide.

• jstanley 9y ago
  Censoring content you disagree with is societal suicide.
  • aphextron 9y ago
    >Censoring content you disagree with is societal suicide. There's a big difference between censoring truths you don't agree with, and just moderating verifiable outright lies. The problem is that most people are decent human beings, and find it impossible to believe that someone would write something on the internet that is just a completely fabricated lie. Fake news hucksters take advantage of this psychological "hack" and exploit it, which should not be allowed to happen.
    • jpalomaki 9y ago
      One trouble is that it's much faster to create fake news than to shoot them down with evidence. And as we have seen (for example with conspiracy theories), some people refuse to believe no matter how much facts you try to throw at them. With centralized platforms we might be able to still block the fake stuff and discredit people who post junk, but in decentralized world this will be impossible. People choose who they follow and to which fact checking service (if any) they subscribe.