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Our nation is built on open discourse. One could argue that rather than silence opposition, one could inform the population. The "mother and father know best"
by sova 6y ago
Our nation is built on open discourse. One could argue that rather than silence opposition, one could inform the population. The "mother and father know best" attitude helps no one and fosters doubt into the integrity of things
- DangitBobby 6y agoIsn't twitter doing exactly that by labeling each tweet explaining the lie(s) it contains?
- Inityx 6y agoThe last four years are damning evidence that the so-called "Marketplace of Ideas" is mostly just a petri dish for Fascism.
- krapp 6y agoThe fact no one wants to accept in this context is that markets need to be regulated or else they get taken over by snake oil salesmen and racketeers.
- FranzFerdiNaN 6y agoOpen discourse doesn’t mean giving everyone a platform.
- Dylan16807 6y agoOnce a single voice is reaching enough people, I would argue that increasing the distribution of their words will on average decrease the amount of discourse. Almost no replies will be heard by a super-celeb, and it's hard to have a meaningful conversation with anyone else in the morass of replies.