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> who gets to decide what's misinformation? Whoever wants to. and then people can compare the competing arbiters and decide who would earn their trust. That us
by cblconfederate 5y ago
> who gets to decide what's misinformation?
Whoever wants to. and then people can compare the competing arbiters and decide who would earn their trust. That used to work with mass media until the internet came along. Now we no longer have multiple newspapers, but "The Newspaper" , "The TV" and "The telegraph" (Twitter?), like 2-3 news sources in total which are basically politically aligned. The name of the game changed from "popularity and copy sales" to "the network effect". I m not sure if this can ever change within a centralizing communication medium like the internet, but perhaps at some point people will realize that the network effect is evil and it will get a bad name.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago> I m not sure if this can ever change within a centralizing communication medium like the internet, The internet, centralising… what went wrong?
- j-bos 5y agoI found this to be a novel perspective on your question: https://samoburja.com/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/ https://samoburja.com/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable...
- cblconfederate 5y agowrong or right? The internet was designed to be "decentralized" in the sense of robust communications, but ultimately the goal was to convey the commands of one, centralized US army
- TeMPOraL 5y agoThe packet switching network was designed to be decentralized. That's layers 2-4 of the ISO/OSI model. Layer 7, the application level, is and always was a force of centralization.