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> Authoritative seeming sources are not always a good thing. Yeah, but what if stupid people search for the wrong thing, find the wrong website and get infecte
by gambler 7y ago
> Authoritative seeming sources are not always a good thing.
Yeah, but what if stupid people search for the wrong thing, find the wrong website and get infected with Wrongthink? Have you thought about that? Crushing amateur content creators and betraying all the ideals of the early Web is small price to pay for preventing that intolerable scenario.
- alkibiades 7y agoi don’t think it’s a coincidence this is all happening before the 2020 election
- thanatropism 7y agoI have this feeling like 30% of the time on HN and never know how to articulate it. I was online in the 90s and never expected to see so much widespread support for curbing free speech. It's like the Russians won.
- wutbrodo 7y agoThere's a dual cause here: illiberalism is increasingly in vogue in our culture and politics, but early internet and tech culture were already heavily skewed towards individualism and independent thought: part of this was inevitable with the mainstreaming of the Internet and the fact that the average person is _far_ less comfortable with non-conformity.
- ldng 7y agoWho or what define "Wrongthink" ?
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoWhoever gets to define what the "right" or "authoritative" answers are.
- krapp 7y agoPeople who disagree with something, usually progressive or feminist ideology or mainstream science, but can't or won't make a rational argument for their position, choosing to portray themselves as victims of persecution for their radical, dangerous, status-quo threatening ideas. Ironically, the same people who insist that terms like "racist", "white supremacist," "hate speech," etc. are arbitrary and can only lead down the slippery slope towards a fascist Orwellian dystopia never seem to believe that an Orwellian metaphor can be incorrectly applied.