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Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by IAmEveryone on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:33AM (#19282327)
I don't quite understand how the proposed "diversity of platforms" is supposed to help?

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?"

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.