| I agree with your sentiment. There are two sides/extremes to this, both of which are undesirable or even harmful. But were revealing a more fundamental issue here: Where are the checks and balances of the media? As it stands now, we've got two possible solutions: 1. Censorship, which I find dangerous and shortsighted.
2. The media itself, which results in a 'who yells the loudest' kind of culture. This issue bleeds into all kind of problems with propaganda, advertising, fake-news, bias, ideology, lies, scams, click-bait and other kind of bullshit. In this discussion we've been talking as if there was some kind of sane regulation of these things. But there isn't really. All of this stuff erodes trust and creates trenches. Sometimes it feels like it is getting worse. People have been talking about how Google Search is getting weaker on this site. There is so much more noise and bullshit today than there ever was, because we're accreting information w/o distinction. There are projects, which try to make fact-checking easier for example, new kind of platforms and ideas to foster real debate. But those things are still on the fringe. This is a massive, important and unsolved problem I think. |