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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:09PM (#22205765)
What makes you think this?

Do you think that Voat, Fox News, InfoWars, etc are somehow less effective platforms?

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by matthewmacleod on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:31PM (#22206000)
Those are also things we should eliminate.
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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by kerkeslager on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:42PM (#22206108)
What you're proposing sounds uncomfortably like totalitarianism.
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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by matthewmacleod on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:12PM (#22206425)
No it doesn’t. I’m just totally comfortable with a world in which people are educated enough to no longer have to consume these industrial lie factories.
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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by pnako on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:31PM (#22207481)
Who gets to decide what's true and good and what's not? You?
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