Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology
by AnthonyMouse on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:22PM
(#19283027)
> Ending up with a "liberal facebook" and a separate "conservative facebook" seems like the worst possible outcome.
Indeed. Which is why two is still the wrong number, and the right number has three or more digits.
Ending up with a "liberal facebook" and a separate "conservative facebook" seems like the worst possible outcome. It will just reinforce tribalism, and destroy any remaining resemblance of a commonly trusted source of truth. There will be two sets of economic indicators every quarter, and both will be wrong. At that point, political discussions will just be fan-fic.
The root of the problem seems to be a large fraction of people opposed to either the existence, or at least the possibility to adjudicate, truth: "Some people say the earth is round(ish). Others say it's flat. Who am I to judge?"