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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by marginalia_nu on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:59AM (#32594547)
The problem isn't really with the internet, but a handful of websites that have come to mediate the internet for a lot of people (despite appearances to the contrary, the two are not the same).

This is a critical distinction, because the former is a problem like "the water is too wet", like you can't really fix that. You can build new digital infrastructure though. That's a solvable problem.

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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by JohnFen on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:55AM (#32595515)
And then that new infrastructure will be subverted just as the current one has been. I don't think this is an issue that can be solved through engineering. I think the problem lies in different domain.
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Re:The coming tsunami of fakery by harimau777 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:41PM (#32596311)
Can't we just build a new infrastructure at that point? The current infrastructure worked well for about a decade. If we have to rebuild every decade then that's not so bad.
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