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Re:Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Se... by mschuster91 on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:22PM (#25094846)
> Any person should already be educated on topics such as anti vaccination.

The quality of US public schools can vary immensely, especially for students in poor areas where the community can't put up much money and education budgets are the first thing to be slashed.

Additionally, many states allow outright lies such as creationism or abstinence-only sex ed to be taught - both of this is further evidence that it cannot be assumed automatically that a person educated in the US is well educated.

Re:Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Se... by smaryjerry on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:10PM (#25095228)
Yes there are stupid people out there but it is not the majority, even in poor areas as you are claiming. Let’s say you are even correct that poor people now are too stupid to understand anti vaccination groups are not science based. The solution is not censorship of anti vaccination groups, it is education campaigns to counter this. Education in schools, commercials, websites and social media. Not censorship of bad information.
Re:Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Se... by mschuster91 on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:12PM (#25095669)
That would require that people are actively interested in being educated. And to be honest most people aren't even in school, much less when they're grown up.

To make it worse, antivaxxers explicitly mistrust science and only trust the blogs and "mama groups" and other crap. How is anything the government, scientists, the media, anyone supposed to overcome that mistrust?