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Re:Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than tw... by erikpukinskis on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:58PM (#22155066)
You’re right that learning to read critically is a challenge, but the idea that just not having access to the written word is somehow better...

I guess I’ll put it in your terms: I have a hard time buying that.

If your suggestion is that it’d be better to go back to a centrally controlled publishing industry... I also don’t buy that.

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Re:Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than tw... by monadic2 on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:47AM (#22160345)
Reading critically is hardly a solution to this; you evaluate “truth” based on sources and authorities with internalized misinformation themselves entirely rationally. I don’t have a prescription, and I am certainly against censorship.
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