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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by mrfusion on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:07AM (#31025784)
> We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does today, where authorities are being undermined like this and casually dismissed by people with no knowledge of the respective fields, etc.

If authorities were never “undermined” you would still be drinking cocaine, giving your kids cough syrup laced with heroin, spraying people with DDT, and also smoking the cigarette brand your doctor recommended.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by ceejayoz on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:13AM (#31025836)
Huh? The authorities are the ones who stopped each of those. With regulation.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by ekianjo on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:31AM (#31026012)
Lol they fought tooth and nail against any change for a long time. Look at oxycontin in the US and how the FDA was complicit for like 20 years.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by breakfastduck on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:50AM (#31026249)
If you're taking literally the most surface level view possible, then sure.

But it doesn't at all reflect the actual realities of what led up to that happening.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:08AM (#31026469)
This might be confusion over the word “authority,” with one including journalists and the other not.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:39AM (#31026122)
Because the public was informed by the news. However, now that some are demonizing the the media or "The Main Stream Media" people trust it less.

This was properly done to prevent the public from being informed about bad actors.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by samstave on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:04AM (#31026429)
>the public was informed by the news

--- inform (v.)

early 14c., "to train or instruct in some specific subject," from Old French informer, enformer "instruct, teach" (13c.) and directly from Latin informare "to shape, give form to, delineate," figuratively "train, instruct, educate," from in- "into" (from PIE root *en "in") + formare "to form, shape," from forma "form" (see form (n.)). In early use also enform until c. 1600. Sense of "report facts or news, communicate information to" first recorded late 14c. Related: Informed; informing.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:58AM (#31027845)
Can you please state your argument along with pasting the definition?
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:58AM (#31027842)
Can you please state your argument along with pasting the definition? I dont
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by suction on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:13AM (#31025839)
But what if authorities would never have been believed? If everyone just dumped their trash into the countryside, drove 120 mph in cities, gave a damn about building codes or safety measures?
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by onion2k on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:54AM (#31027800)
If authorities were never “undermined” you would still be drinking cocaine, giving your kids cough syrup laced with heroin, spraying people with DDT, and also smoking the cigarette brand your doctor recommended.

But what would the downsides be?

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