Re:It's time to get back to our roots around free expression
by phatfish on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:05AM
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Or rather, the anonymous hive-mind is now deciding if something is factually correct. Completely unaccountable, perfect for social media.
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Re:It's time to get back to our roots around free expression
by mrcsd on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:09AM
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So, just like normal then?
I don't disagree with being cynical about social media, but community belief is the overwhelming mechanism by which fact is decided throughout history, including now.
Re:It's time to get back to our roots around free expression
by chimprich on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:42AM
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"Community belief", or the appearance of it, can be engineered by a bad actor with sufficient resources: an authoritarian state, a think-tank with sufficiently rich sponsors, or the platform itself.
Re:It's time to get back to our roots around free expression
by phatfish on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:00AM
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A community can certainly have beliefs, doesn't make them true in a factual sense. Some things are "decided" by the majority opinion, like how we think of gender. Others have an objective truth, whether the majority likes it or not.