Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime
by ConceptJunkie on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:02PM
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>People that don't understand tech should not be on the internet. They don't understand the concept of people can and will lie freely behind a camera or keyboard.
This is a silly statement. Do you (whoever first said this) think widespread misinformation started with the internet? It has nothing to do with tech and everything to do with people.
People who don't understand people should not be on the internet. Their knowledge of tech is completely orthogonal.
Re:Parler is back online after a month of downtime
by devwastaken on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:58PM
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Everything is a gradient - not absolutes. You also have to understand that, again, this is the internet and HN does have political bots.
You're under the mistaken impression that people who "understand tech" are never taken in by these conspiracy theories but I've seen plenty of comments on HN supporting QAnon, "stop the steal", pizzagate, COVID conspiracies and anti-vax, scientific racism, anti-semitism, UFO woo and the paranormal, you name it someone on Hacker News believes it.
The evidence that being able to use a computer and being able to think critically or even maintain a rational grasp on the nature of reality are orthogonal skillsets is all around you.