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Re:Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to d... by tzs on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:01PM (#37273998)
> I don't mind the flat-earthers and the climate-skeptics and the crazy UFO tribe as long as I can hear different voices.

Will you still not mind when all the different voices are saying things just as false as those?

The fundamental problem is that generating false information is easier, faster, and cheaper than generating true information.

It used to be expensive to publish information once you generated it and the channels that could spread it both widely and quickly were particularly expensive and there weren't many of them. The more affordable channels were much slower.

It also used to be that long distance person to person communication was expensive. Most social communication was with people in your area.

Both of these did a good job of countering the ease, speed, and cost advantage generating misinformation has over generating accurate information.

Now neither of them holds. False information can easily completely swamp true information for people who are getting most of their information from their social media feeds, and that is a lot of people.

Re:Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to d... by insickness on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:07PM (#37275294)
> generating false information is easier, faster, and cheaper than generating true information

I'd prefer having pockets of false information than a government decreeing what can and can't be said, as happened with covid. Once you have an official version of truth, those in power will manipulate it to their will.

Re:Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to d... by npmccallum on Saturday August 26, 2023 @08:04PM (#37278062)
The problem is not that you are wrong. You are, in fact, correct. The problem is that there are only two possible solutions:

1. The human race adapts to disinformation. This probably takes a generation or two.

2. We hand over the greatest instrument for tyranny to either the government or large corporations.

The first solution isn’t fun. But it is the only reasonable choice.