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most of the anti fake news brigde is only aimed at anti russian fake news end of the day xD.... the problem is that people still these days beleive any random

most of the anti fake news brigde is only aimed at anti russian fake news end of the day xD.... the problem is that people still these days beleive any random shite they read on the news or internet without thinking and researching for themselves. learn people critical reading and thinking instead of trying to police the interwebz :s "Fake news, racism, sexism, terrorists spreading messages of hate, toxic content directed at children — parts of the internet we have ended up with is a million miles from where we thought it would take us," <-- really ,where did u think anonymous free speach would lead? Happy clappy love land? someone misunderstands the human condition. the world is in a shit state and so this reflects to the internet, if yu don't shield people from the real world by living in some kind of bubble they won't be so 'influenced' by the things they read on the internet because they will better understand it.

jonathanstrange 9y ago
You sound cynical without any need for it. The hatred and fake news comes from small but very radical and vocal minorities. The vast majority of people is quite sensible and does not like this a bit, that's one of the reasons for a certain online fatigue and why people are so annoyed with many unmoderated forums nowadays. For example, I personally came to HN from Slashdot, which has become unbearably toxic within certain topics, even though they have tried to adjust their moderation attribution algorithms to compensate against the haters. The same reality distortion was already at place back on Usenet, though. It's a simple fact of life that certain crackpots and people with an agenda have way more time at hand than people with a real life. So we used killfiles. But apart from such drastic private solutions, moderation is the right way to go. In my view Unilever's pressure on Google and FB is quite welcome.

jonathanstrange 9y ago

You sound cynical without any need for it. The hatred and fake news comes from small but very radical and vocal minorities. The vast majority of people is quite sensible and does not like this a bit, that's one of the reasons for a certain online fatigue and why people are so annoyed with many unmoderated forums nowadays. For example, I personally came to HN from Slashdot, which has become unbearably toxic within certain topics, even though they have tried to adjust their moderation attribution algorithms to compensate against the haters. The same reality distortion was already at place back on Usenet, though. It's a simple fact of life that certain crackpots and people with an agenda have way more time at hand than people with a real life. So we used killfiles. But apart from such drastic private solutions, moderation is the right way to go. In my view Unilever's pressure on Google and FB is quite welcome.