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by yutijke 1166 days ago
But most people do not think critically. Even if we try we do not have access to perfect information.

You read a news article. Is it fact? Is it a tilted spin? Is it truth that omits strategic nuances?

No matter how critically I approach it, I will not be able derive objective truth from biased and fuzzy information.

At some point you will need to trust someone to curate.

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You're absolutely correct. Curation is the ethical answer, not censorship. Gigantic difference.

>No matter how critically I approach it, I will not be able derive objective truth from biased and fuzzy information.

That will always be true no matter the source. There are no truth fairies. There limits of mediums (TV vs Article vs Book vs Movie vs Stream vs etc.) before you even get to individual biases.