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Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth (www.ft.com)
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Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth::Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I don't agree" -> "the content of this comment is false, because it doesn't agree with what I believe to be true" -> "this comment provides no value, because its content is lies". There's no way you can prevent that chain of reasoning, especially since it's largely unconscious for most people.

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's unfortunately true 😕

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose it'd probably be pretty hard to sell people on lies being good, on the basis of lies being good ground for refutation of those lies, huh?

But then I dunno, I'd take like 30 comments of people all disagreeing with some premise in some similar way, compared to like, a 10 comment long reference getting 30 gorillion upvotes, because everyone has to be god's gift to comedy.