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How is "monoculture" created? Slowly by censoring divergent information, in this case, down voting and flagging. The irony also appears to be lost on the peopl
by drummer 7y ago
How is "monoculture" created? Slowly by censoring divergent information, in this case, down voting and flagging.
The irony also appears to be lost on the people downvoting my comment, LOL.
Anyway, I'd also like to point out that the exact same issue mentioned in the article, apart from forums like HN and Reddit, also exists in companies. Any authoritarian system. An example is Boeing.
The same kind of problem also caused the 737 MAX crisis currently underway at Boeing. Criticism wasn’t tolerated in the company and engineers who brought all kinds of design issues up were sidelined by management — silenced and suppressed [1]. This resulted in critical flaws getting into their products, in this case the 737 MAX aircraft, which resulted in two crashes killing a few hundred people.
[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/engineers-say-boeing-pushed-to-limit-safety-testing-in-race-to-certify-planes-including-737-max/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/engin...