Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps

Re:Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire c... by chomp on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:56PM (#29089778)

What’s the difference between a billion dollar corporation and a million dollar corporation in terms of the content that’s curated and presented to you? Is it that it feels like Joe doesn’t curate his guests? Because I assure you, with the sheer amount of requests he gets, he definitely picks and chooses the guests he has on, even if they’re from across the spectrum of opinion.

The idea of “stop letting people control what you consume but oh here’s a person who controls what you consume, don’t worry it’s fine if it’s Joe” makes no sense. Either it’s fine to receive a filtered worldview from people who provide a platform for opinions, or it’s not. And that’s what’s wrong with including Joe Rogan in this article.

I will give Joe some credit though, what he is not, is an engagement echo chamber, but that was not the argument pitched in this article.

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Re:Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire c... by pimlottc on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:02PM (#29090269)

We all pick our own poisons. Unless you've got the time and fortitude to construct your entire worldview from first principles, including a completely independent reconstruction of all of science and history, at some point you have to choose some sources to (mostly) trust using your best judgement. Hopefully you do a good job, but none of us can escape bias and curated selection in our incoming information streams.

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