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> Should we just abolish the idea of a free market of ideas? Yes, please! This has never existed in the past, and continues to not exist in the present, and se
by michaelpb 5y ago
> Should we just abolish the idea of a free market of ideas?
Yes, please! This has never existed in the past, and continues to not exist in the present, and seems to me logically impossible to ever exist in the future.
Just like many would not consider Fox News to be "fair and balanced", but instead consider this slogan to be a dishonest attempt to obscure Fox News' bias, the sooner we give up on the "free market of ideas"-style sloganeering the sooner we can approach problems like those discussed here with any sort of honesty.
- alentist 5y ago"X has never existed perfectly/completely, therefore X should be abolished." Do I understand you correctly? And what are you suggesting it be replaced with?
- michaelpb 5y ago> Do I understand you correctly? Nope, the original question was if we should "abolish the idea", not the thing itself. I'm saying that the idea is a myth in the same way that "unbiased news" is a myth. Both sound like a nice idea on the surface, but with both eventually it all boils down to humans making decisions that elevate one viewpoint (bias) over another, and this holds true whether we are publishing newspapers or publishing HTML documents. Adding another step (e.g. "human writes code; code publishes HTML document") unfortunately doesn't fix this either.
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