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> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it This is a recycled church argument from when the Gutenberg press came around...
by pxmpxm 5y ago
> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it
This is a recycled church argument from when the Gutenberg press came around...
- ss108 5y agoIt's intellectually lazy to ignore the very different power of the internet and the very different social context in which the relevant technologies are developing. For example, the Gutenberg press didn't let literally any idiot immediately distribute their inane thoughts to everybody. There were still barriers of literacy, etc.
- guerrilla 5y agoActually, it was in a sense worse, it only let those able to afford to print distribute their potentially inane thoughts. It did not distinguish whether thoughts were inane or not, it only distinguished how much money you had. The assumption that being able to afford something prevents one from or is mutually exclusive with having inane thoughts to express is, I think all of history would corroborate, completely unwarranted.
- boredumb 5y agoBeing incredibly generous, barely 20% of the US population even logs onto twitter.
- macinjosh 5y agoSo what you're saying is illiteracy was a good thing? Perhaps we should bring that back /s