[bityard]

Back when the web was new and everyone was just getting online through dialup accounts, I thought to myself, finally the era of misinformation, media manipulation, and general bullshittery will come to an end because everyone will be able to fact-check and research the truth on everything. It will be a star trek utopia, minus warp drive and Vulcans.

Oh well, I guess it was called science FICTION for a reason.

[Terr_]

As somebody quipped a few days ago, it was optimistic to think that the internet would improve the real world, as opposed to the real world problems diffusing into the net.

[pixl97]

Turns out bullshit asymmetry theory is impossible to beat.