haha not arguing, just seeing how deep this rabbit hole goes.
Like teachers, now editors are another social good that we need to manage information dissemination optimized for civilization's good.
Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot
by dredmorbius on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:42PM
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Always has been, or at least so long as mass media have existed.
I've been exploring this topic, as a particular focus over the past year, though it's been an interest for some years.
If you look back to the Catholic inquisition (and its precursors), Gutenberg, Martin Luther (500th anniversary coming up at the end of October), J.S. Mill (I've run across some excellent discussion by Hans Jensen: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_... and http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599 (available via Sci-Hub)).
It's sobering.
(You're going to have to try harder for an argument ;-)