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I think you're overestimating the average internet user. A lot of people think that because they view something online, it gives it authority. They fail to unde
by invalidusernam3 6y ago
I think you're overestimating the average internet user. A lot of people think that because they view something online, it gives it authority. They fail to understand anyone can (and does) post content online.
I've often thought this way of thinking is a remnant of the media we've consumed in the past, where there were higher standards because producing media was more exclusive. Think print, radio, TV. On those mediums not just anyone could produce content.
- kazinator 6y agoYou mean those dumb boomers and generation X'ers who were raised on the boob tube rather than YouTube.
- tjr225 6y agoIt is so strange to me specifically because the cohort that seems to be eating this up(my parents age, I mean) were the same ones telling me NOT to believe anything I read on the internet when I was young and the internet was new. What happened?
- ceejayoz 6y agoThey started getting targeted with stuff aimed at their existing biases. (Along with an endless stream of Minions memes, it would seem.)
- gowld 6y agoAge-related cognitive decline.
- djsumdog 6y agoThe left has become the authoritarian right without realizing it.
- sixothree 6y agoAnd forcing a private company to carry content it disagrees with is what exactly?
- sossles 6y agoIt's easy to disbelieve what you read on the internet when it's one voice in a thousand. But increasingly, all thousand voices are telling you what you want to hear.
- mesozoic 6y agoThat is not a good argument in 2020 and you have no evidence that it's even true.