2 ms·
I perceive the effort to build this app as a positive and productive step in the correct direction to filter huge amounts of destructive and toxic rhetoric thro
by khartig 6y ago
I perceive the effort to build this app as a positive and productive step in the correct direction to filter huge amounts of destructive and toxic rhetoric thrown at individuals. Ms Tracy Chou's personal experience with this, her talent, and intellect are a good fit to build tools like this.
One of the downsides of personal filtering is the potential to block out disagreeable relevant truths and facts. Making arguments one-sided and exacerbating the problem of divisive thought in the world.
However, this needed tool is a great and important contribution to the online world.
- jfengel 6y agoI've found that if an argument is worth making, somebody will find a way to make it politely. For people who genuinely wish to learn things, relevant facts will make their way to them. And for people who genuinely don't want to learn things, they have no trouble rejecting true things regardless of how they are written. People in filter bubbles always have been exposed to the truth at least once; they simply reject it. So I don't find any problems with blocking rude people. The author here wrote the Block button on Quora, and I use it vigorously. I would be unable to use the site otherwise, because it attracts a lot of very hostile people. It also has many smart people with a wide variety of perspectives, and they'll inform me when I'm missing something. All I lose out on is hostility.