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by bityard 793 days ago
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.

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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.
Turns out bullshit asymmetry theory is impossible to beat.