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> Reddit is morally bankrupt > When I call them morally bankrupt, it is because of meddling with democracy To say that, you have to affirm that the people in
by alexis_fr 8y ago
> Reddit is morally bankrupt
> When I call them morally bankrupt, it is because of meddling with democracy
To say that, you have to affirm that the people in your democracy are unable to decode various forms of information. It happened in East Germany because East Germany didn’t have the freedom of information, so people were gullible (or so said historians). Your remedy is to... what, shut down Reddit, so only information controlled by the state is published.
Despite being a bad idea from the get go, let’s analyse what people usually criticize as fake news. Statistics about criminality. Statistics that don’t comfort the idea that women are oppressed. Remember that you can write a 10-page document citing sources and having it backed by 5 scientists across the world and be fired by Google for fake newsing.
So in the end you’re just advocating to shut down information that doesn’t comfort your ideas. And you’re using the argument of « morally corrupt » for it.
- eksemplar 8y agoI'm not advocating for anyone to shut down information, I just wouldn't be sad to see a world without companies like Reddit. I think freedom of information will actually do better without them, though.