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The cure for bad information is usually more information.
by darkerside 8y ago
The cure for bad information is usually more information.
- darkerside 8y agoExpanding on my own post... why is it any tech company's responsibility to protect people from their own bad decisions?
- pixl97 8y agoAre you serious? Because as of so far, in the US, the law demands it. Look at every product you buy "Don't do X dangerous thing with said device". We regulate countless things that can be physically harmful to individuals. I can't go to the store and by dynamite because I can harm myself and others with it. So should information be regulated if it can cause physical harm to oneself and others. This is not an easy question to answer.
- darkerside 8y agoSo law should dictate what we're able to say? There was a time when that was counter to the entire point.
- ijpoijpoihpiuoh 8y agoLegal responsibility, or moral? The answer is of course "it depends," in this case on who you ask. Maybe they don't even think it's their responsibility, but they think it will make life better for their customers. I personally do a lot of things that aren't my responsibility, but which I think are good to do for various other reasons.
- darkerside 8y agoThat makes sense in cases where you know what's best for others.
- nisten 8y agoIn my opinion this hypothesis is totally wrong because the accuracy of information is the problem and not the quantity of it. We can handle quantity, now we need to handle error correction and build better access permissions too.
- PavlikPaja 8y agoThe problem with censorship is that either the truth is obvious, and there is no need for it, or it isn't, so there is no way to decide fairly what to censor.
- nisten 8y agoI don't know if censorship is the right branding here because it imposes a correlation between authoritarian citizen-torturing regimes and how we effectively use and encounter "censorship" in our every day lives when doing things such as registering a company name or posting porn on facebook or something. I can't sell vitamins that say "cures cancer" on the packaging so why should a youtuber sell ads while saying the exact same thing.
- bduerst 8y agoWhat if the bad information is the result of an already too low signal:noise ratio for the good information? Kind of like this comic: http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/knowledge/ http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/knowledge/
- darkerside 8y agoThanks, this is hilarious. My response would be, maybe others' lack of information, or disagreement with my understanding of the truth, shouldn't bother me as much as people think it should.
- pixl97 8y agoEh, there is a problem, human bandwidth. If I spam flood you with crap information you will never have time to input good information. Fake/false/random information is far easier to create than good information, much like in any complex problem space there are only a few correct answers and possibly and infinite number of incorrect ones.
- aeternus 8y agoI'm not convinced this is true. Take Wikipedia for example, the overall information quality is extremely high, especially considering it is open to all to edit. One would assume (and many did at first) that Fake/false/random information would reign supreme. This is because Wikipedia policies have made it clear that all information must be derived directly from primary sources. Multiple editors are aligned with that policy and work with others to enforce it. The general populace has not been trained to do that, so false information proliferates. Maybe that reasoning skill is what we should focus on teaching.
- WalterSear 8y agoNo more than violence never solves anything. Which is to say that it's a false aphorism.
- darkerside 8y agoThis cracks me up. Violence solves things all the time. Speaking of aphorisms!