Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by bordercases on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:50PM
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You need expertise to interpret information and you need the right kind of expertise and even the right combinations of expertise, and even knowing what the right combination of expertise is.
It is a question of intelligence, information, expertise and meta-expertise, all of those things. Privileging any of those components of sense-making is myopia of different sorts depending on what claims people are actually wanting to forward.
For instance if you want to look like a centrist while avoiding calling people dumb you say they're low-information voters, change the news, make them listen to these experts, give person X more control or say, when the news and those experts and that person all have problems of different sorts. Not one-dimensional.
Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by rightbyte on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:46PM
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> you almost never get a balanced view presenting arguments for all sides
By banning allegations of election fraud you could change "almost never" to "never".
Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by twentydollars on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:58AM
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They're not banning all allegations of fraud. They're blocking a specific set of claims that have been shown to be false, for instance that Donald Trump won the 2020 US election.
With the vast amount of information on social media, which is where more and more people are getting most of their information nowadays, and the way social media algorithms are designed to maximize engagement, and the way human cognitive biases work, the result is you almost never get a balanced view presenting arguments for all sides even if all sides offering information are acting in good faith.
Then add in all those who are not acting in good faith, who have a much easier time generating vast quantities of low quality information than the people arguing in good faith have for generating high quality information, and it is even worse.
There was a recent article in Scientific American that covered research into this. Here was the HN discussion of it [1].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153716