How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by eigenrick on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:54PM (#25753481)

Most of the modern, big conspiracies have been thoroughly debunked, but that doesn't stop their spread. Any flat-earther has heard all of the flat-earth debunking. Sadly, I know a handful of flat-earthers, and I tried arguing for a while, but it does no good. Instead it appears that the theorists double-down on the conspiracy.

I think people believe in conspiracies, not because they're mislead on a certain topic, but because they want to believe. So debunking conspiracies is attacking their faith, which is what causes zealotry.

It's more like spreading a religion, which, yeah, you can't really ban it. You just have to let people do their thing.

tl;dr I agree that one shouldn't censor it, but only because it does no good.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by cwkoss on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:55PM (#25757429)

> Most of the modern, big conspiracies have been thoroughly debunked

I'd argue this is purely selection bias. I think the biggest modern conspiracies are not yet called conspiracies by the public zeitgeist.

Ex. Remember Jeff Epstein? I'm sure there are dozens of powerful people who hope you don't.

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by eigenrick on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:57PM (#25765623)

I misspoke. I should have said that the modern, big Conspiracy Theories have been debunked.

Epstein was a Conspiracy. No theory required :)

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