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> As much as I love being relatively unrestricted on the internet, is there actually any evidence that censorship decreases trust in institutions? > China is n
by q-big 5y ago
> As much as I love being relatively unrestricted on the internet, is there actually any evidence that censorship decreases trust in institutions?
> China is notorious for censorship but from speaking to friends there it seems everyone is totally on board with vaccines and very few people doubt climate science.
A consideration: could it be that acts of censorship decrease trust in a society that is already divided?
- nathansherburn 5y agoYeah I can definitely see how this could be true in the current political climate. More generally though, it seems to me that: 1. A minimal censorship information environment is essential to scientific progress 2. The average person lacks the epistemological foundations to handle a minimal censorship information environment If these are both true, it seems like we should either: 1. Invest massively in improving people's epistemological models or 2. Apply a censorship gradient (i.e unrestricted for the purpose of academic exploration but have minimum standards for wide-reaching, publicly shared information)