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by wdewind 2420 days ago
Right, and my point is this is the exact same argument the church, and other centralized publishing powers at the time, made about the printing press:

Imagine there being competing interpretations of God? How could we form a community? Wont people have completely different experiences in life if they don't have the same experience with God? If we let someone get exposed to the "bad media" before they are exposed to the "good media" how will they ever know what the "good media" is? Can someone please think of the children?

It turns out not a lot of people are actually in favor of freedom when push comes to shove.
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wutbrodo 2420 days ago
Right, all this hysteria about tech companies' irresponsibility is simply "how dare you give the average person an easier route to expressing themselves and connecting to each other". Hell, it might not even be wrong that this is a bad thing[1], but the discourse around it is so dishonest.

[1] There's long been a place in political philosophy for acknowledging that it's possible for the masses to have too much direct power

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whoopdedo 2420 days ago
Except news isn't religion. The fake news sources will have you believe that their lies are of equal stature as others' facts.

If you're talking about a central authority choosing what information people get to see, wouldn't that make Facebook and their algorithm the Church in this situation?

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wdewind 2420 days ago
> The fake news sources will have you believe that their lies are of equal stature as others' facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

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A2017U1 2420 days ago
> news isn't religion

Anecdotally it feels that way in modern society.

Ask a random person if they believe Fox news.

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