I get that people can waste their time how they like, and freedom of speech means you can publish and share any addled, paranoid rant, but 2.5 million hits is 2

I get that people can waste their time how they like, and freedom of speech means you can publish and share any addled, paranoid rant, but 2.5 million hits is 2.5 million wastes of 2:18. That’s 5 million minutes. That’s closing in on 100,000 hours that people spent watching this hooey. People are not an engineering problem to be optimized. A person idly browsing Facebook and sharing sketchy conspiracy theories is not in a productive mindspace in the first place. So what? People are no always intelligent or perceptive - that's just part of being human. Sharing or Liking are public actions. Meaning, the act of liking something provides you with a data point about the person doing the liking. If a FB friend of mine liked the white-power Stormfront web site that's a useful piece of information for me to know. If my friend believes or is beginning to believe in 9/11 truther hooey, I want to know about it. Maybe we can talk to him and maybe I can change his mind. 2.5 million liked a piece of hooey. It's good that we know that. You can't debunk B.S. if you don't know it exists.