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Umberto Eco said it best: “Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming th
by DoingIsLearning 5y ago
Umberto Eco said it best:
“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”
- cvwright 5y agoI see no problem with letting idiots say idiotic things. As your quote shows, the world has survived the idiots for a very long time. The problem with social media is not that there are people saying things that are dumb or wrong. The problem is that the platforms survive by finding the most virulent idiocy and spreading it as widely as possible.