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Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by snaky on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:05AM (#18618092)
> I think it is fair to criticize unedited internet communication in general, as we have just recently learned that this form of communication did not result in the improvement of public discourse

It depends on how exactly you define 'improvement'. Millions of people, speaking freely to each other, finding new friends sharing common interests would disagree with you.

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Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by ulrikrasmussen on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:31AM (#18618295)
It is not universally bad, of course. The question is if the bad consequences outweigh the good ones.

The improvement I was talking about was the hope that the increased access to online communication would engage more people in constructive public discourse, include the voices of minorities and bring people with different backgrounds to a greater understanding of each other. Platforms like Facebook have utterly failed at that.

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