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Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free by askxnakjsn on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:54AM (#24037772)
Getting things wrong on occasion is better than having some sort of idiot free for all.
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Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free by dj_mc_merlin on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:06AM (#24037926)
Maybe, but a well told lie told by The One Authority on Truth has more destructive power than a billion chaos monkeys typing on their typewriters for the next hundred generations.
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Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free by Falling3 on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:40AM (#24038285)
We have more options than blindly trust those who are more likely to be right and "idiot free for all".
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