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lol - "repeat misinformers" Ministry of Truth indeed. Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, not as a flipping implementation guide.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, even when something feels Orwellian. It doesn't help.
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This view, though probably correct, is incompatible with democracy. We can't have rule by the people if the people aren't capable of ruling themselves. I still believe democracy is the best way forward, but it depends on critical thinking and there seems to be a decline in that area recently.
> it depends on critical thinking and there seems to be a decline in that area recently. Respectfully, I call bullshit. There has always been a lack of critical thinking, we just didn't have the internet to bear witness. I think people are complaining about a lack of critical thinking more now because there are more educated people around to think critically. So I agree that we need critical thinking, but let's not b…
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> it depends on critical thinking and there seems to be a decline in that area recently. Respectfully, I call bullshit. There has always been a lack of critical thinking, we just didn't have the internet to bear witness. I think people are complaining about a lack of critical thinking more now because there are more educated people around to think critically. So I agree that we need critical thinking, but let's not b…
Yeah I don't think critical thinking is worse than before, it's just being amplified by the feedback loop that social media has become.
Name one time in history when the group burning books and censoring people were the good guys.
Name one other time in history when memes could be spread and amplified at the same rate and level as through social media.
The parallels between the internet and the printing press are many.
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This is how they steal free speech from you. Make you believe that adults aren’t capable of managing their lives or beliefs.
How do you explain QAnon, then?
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Name one other time in history when memes could be spread and amplified at the same rate and level as through social media.
Europe survived the invention of the printing press just fine. The parallels between the internet and the printing press are many.
Facebook just wants to show you sensationalist trash and call it "engagement."
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Name one other time in history when memes could be spread and amplified at the same rate and level as through social media.
Europe survived the invention of the printing press just fine. The parallels between the internet and the printing press are many.
The parallels between the Internet and the printing press may be many, but the differences are IMO vastly greater.
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Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, even when something feels Orwellian. It doesn't help.
Okay may be lol is not really HN style. But how is the above comment flame bait. It just calls the article calling for Orwellian measures which it does by any reasonable standard (thought police?).