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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by Veen on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:40AM (#31027626)
The evidence is that it's only 15%. Free speech doesn't guarantee everyone will have right beliefs. In fact, it's a certainly that in a free speech environment lots of people will have crazy beliefs.

Free speech does, however, guarantee that no one group can control which ideas—crazy or not—can be expressed. And that, in the long run, ensures that there will be space to push back against the crazy and the harmful, which tends to be good for the less powerful.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by kadoban on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:47AM (#31027719)
If you're celerating that "only" 15% of people believe the most obvious bullshit anyone could possibly cook up, then your plan is flawed.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by Veen on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:48AM (#31028532)
What would a non-flawed plan look like? One that results in everyone having "correct" beliefs? I'm pretty sure it would be a great deal worse than what we have now.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by kadoban on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:51PM (#31029582)
Nuking social media from orbit would be a good start. Any platform where what content you're shown is primarily driven by an algorithm is very suspect.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by Veen on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:28PM (#31030214)
On that we can agree. Social media is a scourge. But it's also true that people believed crazy things before social media.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by kadoban on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:40PM (#31030382)
They did, but a more manageable dose. The current amount and effectiveness of disinformation is making society itself unstable.

Education could be a big part of it as well, not even teaching people what's correct but how to figure it out.

Income inequality isn't exactly helping either. Many people will believe any noisy asshole if their life sucks enough.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by JacobThreeThree on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:07AM (#31027930)
Furthermore, in the grand scheme humans beliefs being 'right' or 'wrong', people today probably have far more 'right' beliefs than ever during history. Conspiracy theories and wrong beliefs have been more prevalent in the past than today.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:51AM (#31027777)
How does it guarantee that? What if I have information that so and so in a government is a rapist but a sea of lies implies I'm a traitor or pedophile
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