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> With all that, why don’t we simply remove borderline content? Misinformation tends to shift and evolve rapidly, and unlike areas like terrorism or child safet
by CoryAlexMartin 5y ago
> With all that, why don’t we simply remove borderline content? Misinformation tends to shift and evolve rapidly, and unlike areas like terrorism or child safety, often lacks a clear consensus. Also, misinformation can vary depending on personal perspective and background.
This is a weird way to say "ideas that we suppress for being misinformation are sometimes actually true."
- judge2020 5y ago'sometimes true depending on who's watching, what their cultural background is, and whether or not the idea presented is proved with future research'.
- lucb1e 5y agoI don't get this one. How can something be true for only some people? If you say "people shower every day on average" then that might be true in hot sweaty climates more than in temperate ones where people might shower every other day instead, but that's not really what's meant with misinformation. So I'm not understanding how the things that one means when talking about misinformation -- e.g. that lemon juice cures cancer or that homeopathic medicine works better than placebo pills, those kinds of things is what we're talking about right? Isn't that universally false (or true, if something is not actually misinformation but only labeled as such because people don't like the facts)?
- jedimastert 5y agoI mean, context really is important. "Ivermectin won a Nobel prize" is an objectively true fact, but depending on who you are that either means basically nothing or go eat horse de-wormer