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>That they will be emboldened is a minor tertiary effect compared to the massive primary damage of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories like the Earth orbi
by konjin 6y ago
>That they will be emboldened is a minor tertiary effect compared to the massive primary damage of conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theories like the Earth orbiting the sun. No, a society that is based on keeping people ignorant is a society that's not worth being called one. It's a thought police state that makes citizens into children who believe whatever the powers on high tell them to believe.
- intended 6y agoThis is the old guard idea, I too was a proponent, then I had to deal with figuring out what it meant to moderate content online and this idea just ends. The market place of ideas is flawed in practice, as much as it may be a great metaphor in discussion. In practice there are too many weaknesses, asymmetries, and lopsidedness of time and obsession for conversations online to naturally support a market place of rational ideas. If you want an emotion and superstition filled market place carrying only the most addictive, neuro invasive ideas, then going with the old guard way is a good way of achieving it. Unless you have a solution for the problem of content, then this idea is only a first draft, and not applicable in its unalloyed form.
- konjin 6y agoDid you consider charging people for signing up and posts they made? It turns out that when people have to pay for extra posts past the first three a day they get a lot more circumspect in what they say. I set up a mailing list with that feature once upon a time and the quality of posts was astronomical.