Re:Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation”
by motohagiography on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:57PM
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I think I'm being trolled! What a hoot.:) However, litigation isn't persuasive. I'm glad to have struck a nerve, because I get to read final boss level arguments that I still think reduce to backbiting, envy, and nihilism, but this fundamental and probably irreconcilable level of disagreement on principle is too meta and off topic for us to have here.
One hopes you will one day use your powers for good. See you in battle!
Re:Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation”
by conspiracist on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:43PM
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> You've dug yourself a nice deep hole of bad faith here. Either start climbing out of it, or at least stop digging.
This tone is working against you more than you realize.
Don't respond until you can process what they're saying without wrapping it off with such provocative emotionally-charged bait please.
Exclusively? Really? Like there are no actual crazy or malign conspiracy theories out there? Literally none?
> This qualifer that the goal of a conspiracy has to be nefarious is ridiculous
I very specifically said "generally nefarious" to indicate that nefariousness was non-essential. The essential parts (as you'll find in a dictionary) are "operating together" and "hidden" and you already conceded on those. Your original key claim ("to be a conspiracy theorist...") was clearly ridiculous, and you even seem to have admitted as much. What's the point of quibbling about non-essential and secondary parts?
> conspired to intercept the private communications
Nice red herring you've got there. Be a shame if anyone thought you were avoiding actual productive discourse by resorting to it.
> You can't just use the epithet as a synonym for inferior and outgroup and expect people to treat it as a serious argument.
Never did. Is that a strawman, or attributing motive, or both?
You've dug yourself a nice deep hole of bad faith here. Either start climbing out of it, or at least stop digging.