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That would be great, but you’re basically wishing for smarter people. The urge for tribalism will always be greater than the the urge for reasoning, and since t
by cbron 9y ago
That would be great, but you’re basically wishing for smarter people. The urge for tribalism will always be greater than the the urge for reasoning, and since that’s the case we have to do what we can to stop tribalism from being inflamed by propaganda.
- skrebbel 9y agoBut in the end it boils down to "wishing for smarter people" or "wishing for more censorship", right? I know which wish I'd be wishing.
- rootlocus 9y agoAnd I know which you'll be getting...
- cbron 9y agoComparing the removal of obviously fake news to censorship is a false equivalence. One does not lead to the other.
- amazingman 9y agoThis isn’t all that hard, at least conceptually. Clear, conspicuous presentation of the provenance of ad spend is what we need. Political ad spend should additionally be tied to positively identified individuals or to organizations with clear, conspicuous ties to positively identified individuals. And we need this in legislative form. No letting the Facebooks of the world do it on their own out of some PR-spun notion of corporate responsibility.