Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mardef 745 days ago
No, nowhere is the article stating that only one viewpoint is allowed.

For example, if there were several scientists that were debating more precise ways of calculating the circumference of Earth, the discourse would improve if flat Earth information was excluded.

1 comments

Framing people as “false info traffickers” sort of reveals to me that these researchers sort of do believe only one viewpoint should be allowed? They talk like military censors do during wartime, or political commissars.
People spreading lies is bad, yes. Most of us learned this when we were 5 years old.