Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte...
by warbird on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:06PM
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Agreed on all points. I've lurked HN forever and consider it one of my very few feel-good places online. This post, and (already) some of the comments are not appropriate to my understanding of the site.
Edit: to be clear, by "feel-good" I do not mean "positive," emotionally, just not subject to the same level of useless vitriol common elsewhere--which is where this thread is going.
Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte...
by hos234 on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:09PM
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The US is just much much larger than all other Western democracies. Sensitive topics are going to be much more political and take their time to resolve. It's like comparing how a group of 10 people resolve issues versus a group of 300. The dynamics are very different given the information asymmetry.
The discourse in your country doesn't seem to revolve about facts any more. At the moment it's just political. I'm wondering why this is on HN at all. We all know whatever is going to be said about this topic is going to be political eventually.
(wow fastest downvote ever, I just posted this, like 5 seconds, and it already got a downvote :)