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I took that comment to say that its parent was calling for the impossible. So not off-topic. For some people including your parent perhaps, it is axiomatic tha
by lovemenot 8y ago
I took that comment to say that its parent was calling for the impossible. So not off-topic.
For some people including your parent perhaps, it is axiomatic that free information implies an abundance of false information.
The construction was a little strange. "If only..." usually references an existing technology ironically. In this case I think they are saying there will never be such a tech.
- setr 8y agoThe existing tech he's referring to is what we're approaching with the web as it is now (silos of centralized systems, in which information could be controlled), and the irony is that a large part of why decentralized systems (and tim's construction) are notable is to avoid such a scenario. They explicitly do not solve the problem of fake news, because they explicitly do not want to live in the world where fake news is a solved problem (because the issues that go with its solution are far worse than the problem of fake news). The problem is that it is possible to do, and the solution to it is not something we want in general, but we're heading towards it anyways, and TBL is trying to avoid that with his machinations, and the commenter is effectively asking "how does this solve a problem that would naturally be solved with a solution we really, really don't want, and TBL is going out of his way not to solve?".