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Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by geysersam on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:22PM (#34711356)
Call. It's not about who's fastest, it's about who stays in the end. Despite us humans being a lying, cheating bunch, knowledge and access to education continues to grow all over the world. That's certainly not thanks to censorship!
Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by anigbrowl on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:14PM (#34712215)
Not so fast, pardner. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

You are making two mistakes here: the simplest one is thinking that the winner of the argument is whoever has the last word. This is very frequently not the case, as any troll could tell you. Often, the power move is to get opponents mad and then move on, leaving them impotently fuming about how terrible that person is.

You're also identifying with the larger group at the societal/species level, which is valid, but is also a way of ignoring problems in the here and now. It's like zooming out from a bloody battlefield to look at the earth in space. With an extraplanetary perspective, Earth looks so beautiful and peaceful...but that doesn't help a single person who is impacted by the bloody battle.

Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by throwaway53523 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:18PM (#34712277)
>It's not about who's fastest, it's about who stays in the end.

This is contradictory. Not every reader is going to "stay in the end" to learn what's really true. The past few years have given plenty of evidence for that.

Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by mylidlpony on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:26PM (#34712426)
> It's not about who's fastest, it's about who stays in the end

And that's where authoritarian regimes get you. People usually aren't that invested in a conversation, or in disproving firehose of falsehoods style comments placed by people incentivized monetarily to make sure the correct opinion stays in the end. If the platform has rating system they also generate accounts to manipulated it for the same purpose.