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> how about I get to use my critical thinking Because no-one, including you, is an expert on everything. So there will be many topics for which you will not b

> how about I get to use my critical thinking Because no-one, including you, is an expert on everything. So there will be many topics for which you will not be able to make an informed judgement about the accuracy of the content. And on a social network centred around sharing it can be very easy for inaccuracies to spread.

abtinf 2y ago
> Because no-one, including you, is an expert on everything. As I said, god forbid I forget my place and use my mind in the domain of my betters.
- threeseed 2y ago
  You can continue to use your mind. Pretend that the Community Notes are a conspiracy to rob you of your free will and ignore them.
- brigandish 2y ago
  <country hick accent>Looks like we got ourselves a reader… Yep, reading, researching, considering what things matter given your own life experience and situation, these are all meaningless in the face of THE EXPERTS! /s When J.S. Mill wrote about infallibility[1], I can't remember if he wrote about outsourcing that infallibility belief to others, but if he did, he predicted the last 5 years of pro-censorship arguments perfectly. [1] https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/on-liberty/chapter-ii-of-the-liberty-of-thought-and-discussion https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/on-liberty/chapter-ii-of-th...
  - rolandog 2y ago
    I'm no expert in this domain, but the larger issue at play here is that: 1. certain groups are arguing for assigning trust to a group to perform case-by-case censorship as a countermeasure to propaganda and disinformation, 2. other groups (sometimes purposefully) misinterpreting this as blanket censorship and conjure up several slippery-slope warnings. When talking about general things, it sounds very noble to talk about protecting every budding idea... therefore group #2 gets to trot around the higher moral ground when arguing in this way. When talking about the specific ideas being "censored" (e.g. "immigrants eating dogs"), group #1 gets to claim group #2 is some flavor of crazy. What both miss is that they have been pitted against each other by so many interest groups: nation-state and corporate. This is happening all around the globe.
    - brigandish 2y ago
      Stop the censorship then and the pitting you claim is happening disappears.

abtinf 2y ago

> Because no-one, including you, is an expert on everything. As I said, god forbid I forget my place and use my mind in the domain of my betters.

threeseed 2y ago
You can continue to use your mind. Pretend that the Community Notes are a conspiracy to rob you of your free will and ignore them.
brigandish 2y ago
<country hick accent>Looks like we got ourselves a reader… Yep, reading, researching, considering what things matter given your own life experience and situation, these are all meaningless in the face of THE EXPERTS! /s When J.S. Mill wrote about infallibility[1], I can't remember if he wrote about outsourcing that infallibility belief to others, but if he did, he predicted the last 5 years of pro-censorship arguments perfectly. [1] https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/on-liberty/chapter-ii-of-the-liberty-of-thought-and-discussion https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/on-liberty/chapter-ii-of-th...
- rolandog 2y ago
  I'm no expert in this domain, but the larger issue at play here is that: 1. certain groups are arguing for assigning trust to a group to perform case-by-case censorship as a countermeasure to propaganda and disinformation, 2. other groups (sometimes purposefully) misinterpreting this as blanket censorship and conjure up several slippery-slope warnings. When talking about general things, it sounds very noble to talk about protecting every budding idea... therefore group #2 gets to trot around the higher moral ground when arguing in this way. When talking about the specific ideas being "censored" (e.g. "immigrants eating dogs"), group #1 gets to claim group #2 is some flavor of crazy. What both miss is that they have been pitted against each other by so many interest groups: nation-state and corporate. This is happening all around the globe.
  - brigandish 2y ago
    Stop the censorship then and the pitting you claim is happening disappears.