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This is the classic problem of assuming that people who share a few opinions with you share all your other opinions as well.
by jstanley 3y ago
This is the classic problem of assuming that people who share a few opinions with you share all your other opinions as well.
- sanderjd 3y agoYes, totally. But that is common because it is useful for understanding how aggregates of people behave. It's an estimation heuristic. It's bad to get caught thinking estimates are truly reality, but it's not bad to try to estimate things. I do think there is a throughline between the ... techno-hippies? of my youth for whom DRM was a big concern, and those of today, for whom corporate concentration of social media is a big concern. But I know that's just a heuristic. Nevertheless, I think it's interesting to me that there is now some subset of the newer group who is arguing for something that seems very analogous to DRM for social media content. I think you're probably right that it's totally different people, not the same people being inconsistent.