The internet's “town square” is dead

Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by tzs on Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:23PM (#36656468)

> the best way to dismiss misinformation is to let it shine under the light of scrutiny

That has been tried many times and it does not work at scale. Generating and distributing information is orders of magnitude easier, faster, and cheaper than generating and distributing refutations of that misinformation.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by lamontcg on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:56PM (#36658242)

The bullshit asymmetry principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by freitzkriesler2 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:34PM (#36658591)

This isn't a law. This is an opinion by someone who can't stand being told that something he might think is correct isn't and when pushed on it can't argue in good faith because his position isnt as good as he thought.

Also considering who came up with it, it's another prime example of someone who is an expert in one area assuming he has expertise in another that he has zero expertise in.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by lamontcg on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:50PM (#36658752)

I mean it took you probably 20 seconds to type that out very assertively and aggressively.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by freitzkriesler2 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:32PM (#36659135)

And yet here we are where you can post pretty much whatever you want within reason on Twitter. You tell me, who is winning?

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by lamontcg on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:59PM (#36659381)

Agreed. lol.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by Incipient on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:11PM (#36661218)

"refute" is more than just saying "I don't think it's true". You have to provide evidence, or I suppose in some cases an incredibly solid justification to refute.

I say "desantis is actually running for president to sell off Texas to the Mexicans".

Took me about 4 seconds to write that. You have an order of magnitude to refute it - about 40 seconds. God speed.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by freitzkriesler2 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:30PM (#36658554)

[citation needed]

I'll take down votes all day.

Information wants to be free. I can't believe I have to say this on a site like this.

I'm glad Elon bought Twitter because it allows for disinformation to be exposed and discussed.

The more you suppress it, the more people seek it out.

The petty tyrants out there with opinions like yours deserve the freedom of speech they get because it shows that some stuff you think is valid isn't actually as valid as you think it is.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by yowzadave on Sunday July 09, 2023 @05:44PM (#36659242)

> Information wants to be free...I'm glad Elon bought Twitter because it allows for disinformation to be exposed and discussed.

Is this the same Elon who disallowed links to competitor sites? Who announced that the term "cisgender" would be classified as hate speech? Who suspended accounts for criticizing him? Who closed the site so it could be viewed by logged-in users only?

I understand advocating for free speech, but seeing that vision realized in Elon's management of Twitter requires willful blindness.

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Re:The internet's “town square” is dead by red-iron-pine on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:53PM (#36669106)

> Information wants to be free. I can't believe I have to say this on a site like this.

This is a tech-startup website that exists to monetize SV-style start-ups. The whole point is to make as much money as possible, and any FOSS love is wholly incidental.

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