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Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by pjc50 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:09AM (#15391130)
> The only thing you can truly know is what you witness in person.

> The good news is, that which you can't witness with your own eyes, rarely has any real effect on your life

Not only anti-rationalist and anti-Enlightenment, but you're even disagreeing with object permanence!

Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by croon on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:19AM (#15391865)
> Not only anti-rationalist and anti-Enlightenment, but you're even disagreeing with object permanence!

And not even "not only" that, it also veers into the dirty movement of muddying the waters of responsible reporting, into a discussion of "what is truth really?". When "nothing is true", every venue from 4chan to infowars is equal in its non-truth to AP/Reuters/WaPo/NYT/Atlantic/etc.

When all media is fake, listening to Alex Jones talk about water supplies making children gay is somehow legitimized.

Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by rdiddly on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @09:42AM (#15392324)
Yeah no it doesn't. Just one more thing to ignore. Unless I personally saw someone turn gay from drinking water, but even if I thought I saw that, I wouldn't totally believe that either.

And I did mention trusted parties, which could be a reporter. You guys are just not in the mood for philosophising tonight I guess. You want to be certain of things. Disappointing response. Should've avoided the term "fake news." It's Pavlovian.

Re:Google and Facebook Have Failed Us by eropple on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @10:16AM (#15392539)
That seems to be the inevitable result of an uncritical embrace of nihilism.

If nothing matters, 4chan is great.

If things actually matter, 4chan is an existential threat.