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I see here a huge imbalance. On one hand, there's a board that can order an expert in a certain field to shut up and not even talk about his field of expertise,
by WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
I see here a huge imbalance. On one hand, there's a board that can order an expert in a certain field to shut up and not even talk about his field of expertise, and now said expert has to go to the court.
On the other hand, the internet has become this fucking enormous megaphone of people who have no idea what they're talking about, they are also completely free to put up fucking billboards IRL about, say, how the pandemic is a hoax and how vaccines are dangerous — nobody bats an eye, and there's really is no efficient way to get them to shut the fuck up about stuff they've got no clue about.
Now I'm not saying there should be censorship (although requiring tinfoil hat wielders to pay hefty license fees sounds very tempting), but it looks like today it's way easier to silence a real subject matter expert than a pompous charlatan, and that's plain unfair.
- nobodyandproud 5y agoThe early days of consumer internet—up to the early 2000s—didn’t exhibit the same scale of misinformation as what we see today. The problem of today is that misinformation scales far more easily than quality information, and it’s because we don’t have the tools to filter out well-written (grammar and tone) misinformation. I’m not sure credentialism alone is the answer though.