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Sure. But here's the thing: you aren't qualified to act as the arbiter of what constitutes 'misinformation'. No one is. You may rail against this because asse
by speechta424214 5y ago
Sure.
But here's the thing: you aren't qualified to act as the arbiter of what constitutes 'misinformation'. No one is.
You may rail against this because asserting an (unearned) claim over objective reality - what is true and what is false - is advantageous in spreading narratives favor to your personal interest. But let's be clear: that's all it is, and that's all it will ever be.
- csee 5y agoThe corrolarly of this absolutist perspective is to allow Twitter/Wikipedia/Arxiv/Facebook/HackerNews to become 8chan, which is a reductio ad absurdum of your position that all ideas are equally valid, objective facts can't be agreed upon (or perhaps don't even exist) and one can't possibly design a good moderation system. I reject this position on purely empirical grounds, simply contrast the tightly moderated HackerNews with the unmoderated sewer that is 8chan.