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It's so easy to convince someone who understands nothing about how computers and the Internet works that "filtering out (child) pornography" is a good thing, ea
by sspiff 13y ago
It's so easy to convince someone who understands nothing about how computers and the Internet works that "filtering out (child) pornography" is a good thing, easy to do and won't cause any collateral damage.
I wonder if all these spying scandals and the rise of censorship in the West will lead to an noticeable increase in the size of tor/i2p/...
- Wingman4l7 13y agoWhat is needed is a simple "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" analogy that effectively communicates how it's a) impossible to effectively filter out such things and b) how easy it is to abuse said filters once they're in place. Maybe something using cars? =P
- sspiff 13y agoUnfortunately, for the vast majority of voters (or people in general), counter arguments don't really matter if they liked what they heard in the first place. Then they just think "what you're saying makes things more difficult, I'd rather not hear it".
- Wingman4l7 13y agoDon't forget the studies implying that, when presented with evidence to the contrary, people will hold their original beliefs stronger. The more I learn about everything, the less certain I am about anything; I wish more people were the same. The idea is to come up with a metaphor that is as short and sweet as it is compelling. As much as the idea of "selling" truth disgusts me, we need to "market" the unpleasant realities of a filter as effectively as politicians have sold the lie of it being "for the children" in order to have a fighting chance of preventing it.
- sspiff 13y agoI hadn't heard that before, can you provide any reference or source for this? I think I'll need it in future discussions :)
- Wingman4l7 13y ago> when presented with evidence to the contrary, people will hold their original beliefs stronger Actually Googling my phrase seems to give pretty good results -- descriptive powers FTW! :D The name for it appears to be "the Backfire Effect", classed as a type of cognitive bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Backfire_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Backfire_eff... http://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html http://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html
- sspiff 13y agoThank you!