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Re:Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in So... by willcipriano on Thursday March 28, 2024 @08:33AM (#39850444)
> without conspiracy loonies

The term "conspiracy theory" was invented by the CIA after Kennedy's head exploded shortly after he started to move to withdraw from Vietnam.

It was later used on people who didn't buy the Iraq WMD story.

It was used on people who suspected mass government spying before Snowden proved them right.

Recently it was used for people who thought a US funded biolab experimenting with making bat coronaviruses miles from the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak was suspicious.

You can try to censor untrue things but censoring "conspiracy loonies" means sticking to the mainstream narratives, for that you can go on Reddit and watch CNN.

Re:Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in So... by Almondsetat on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:46AM (#39851383)
Using the origin of a word to discredit its current use is quite simply a bad faith argument to sidetrack discussion. Conspiracy has a meaning and it doesn't matter who coined it. If you want to make this argument be sure to carefully analize the entire etymology of every single word you're writing
Re:Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in So... by brvsft on Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:46AM (#39852243)
> Conspiracy has a meaning…

Yeah, and “conspiracy theory” has a meaning, which, in bad faith, currently encapsulates, “Things I disagree with broadly, which can be linked to and invalidated by the existence of other people online who are either trolls or extremely stupid.” That way I can say that anyone who engages in wrongthink—perhaps, that a healthy 30-year-old might be allowed the choice to take a vaccine or allow natural immunity to take effect, without being threatened with loss of employment for choosing the latter—is lumped in with idiots or trolls who think that they’re making vaccines with microchips in them. Now they’re all “conspiracy theorists.”

I don’t believe even 5% of the people using the term are doing so in good faith.

Re:Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in So... by beardicus on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:52AM (#39851465)
> The term "conspiracy theory" was invented by the CIA

ooh, a recursive conspiracy theory. neat!

Re:Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in So... by jeezfrk on Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:41AM (#39852885)
what about all those that turned out to be deranged imagination / fascism / communism / racism / cultic or just plain moneymaking FUD?

You remember all those? Strange. Thst seems to be blocked from you reading it.