Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:06PM
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> Some people, after being exposed to misinformation, chose to believe them.
Some people, after being given the opportunity to gamble, choose to place a bet, even when it has a negative expected value. Should Nevada ban blackjack?
Some people, after being given the opportunity to buy insurance, choose to buy insurance, even when it has a negative expected value. Should we ban insurance? If not, what about credit default swaps?
The reason central planning doesn't work is that everything is much too complicated for a central planner to be able to make good decisions about everything. People who are close to a thing know it better than people who are far away, so the decision is best left to the individual. It's their life, they're the one with the best incentive to get it right.
> Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?
Let us take this question to its logical conclusion and apply it to the censors. If the censors can't tell the truth from the lie then they may end up censoring the truth instead -- oops. But how are they any more qualified to decide this than anybody else?
This is doubly true when you're talking about a platform. As if YouTube has "medical expertise" in its bailiwick.
> It is possible that platforms, being designed the way they are to maximize corporations' interest naturally lead to unintended consequences.
That is absolutely possible. But maybe then the answer is to design them differently rather than keeping the bad design while throwing hatchets at random civilians because somebody who themselves has no unique competence thinks they might be wrong about something.
Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by mrfusion on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:20PM
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As an example of your point. At some point in the past the censors would have gotten the truth wrong on the cancer/smoking connection. Believe it or not, that began as a fringe belief.
Some people, after being given the opportunity to gamble, choose to place a bet, even when it has a negative expected value. Should Nevada ban blackjack?
Some people, after being given the opportunity to buy insurance, choose to buy insurance, even when it has a negative expected value. Should we ban insurance? If not, what about credit default swaps?
The reason central planning doesn't work is that everything is much too complicated for a central planner to be able to make good decisions about everything. People who are close to a thing know it better than people who are far away, so the decision is best left to the individual. It's their life, they're the one with the best incentive to get it right.
> Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?
Let us take this question to its logical conclusion and apply it to the censors. If the censors can't tell the truth from the lie then they may end up censoring the truth instead -- oops. But how are they any more qualified to decide this than anybody else?
This is doubly true when you're talking about a platform. As if YouTube has "medical expertise" in its bailiwick.
> It is possible that platforms, being designed the way they are to maximize corporations' interest naturally lead to unintended consequences.
That is absolutely possible. But maybe then the answer is to design them differently rather than keeping the bad design while throwing hatchets at random civilians because somebody who themselves has no unique competence thinks they might be wrong about something.