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Ever heard of the Illusory truth effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

• amadeuspagel 4y ago
  Perhaps something that should make you more skeptical of your beliefs, in the name of which you want to censor other beliefs.
  • cbeach 4y ago
    Quality counter-argument. Kudos.
  • prirun 4y ago
    In a former life I ran a company that had forums for our customers that could be viewed by the public. Our policy was to never delete or edit posts. It was great until we had about 2000 customers. Then we got a handful of about 10 nutjobs who formed a small clique to cause trouble. They disagreed with some of our policies & fees, which is fine - we let them have their say about it. The problem was, instead of just leaving our service after posting their disagreements, they stayed, because they were actually making money from their business with us. But they were so bitter about fee changes, they couldn't let it go. They came to dominate the forum discussion, not because they had anything useful to contribute other than their original disagreements, but because they had a lot of energy to post the same thing over and over. It devolved into death threats against us, believe it or not, on a forum that we were publishing. How would you handle that in a censor-free environment?
    • amadeuspagel 4y ago
      There's a difference between forums, where everyone sees the same posts, and platforms, such as twitter, where everyone chooses who to follow and block. How should Elon Musk deal with irrate Tesla customers on twitter? If necessary, by blocking them, but not by banning them from twitter. (Death threats of course are an extreme case, in which even banning someone from a platform can be justified.)