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Originally Posted by Matata
You'd have to be an ideological zealot not to see that the enforcement of censorship on social media isn't heavily influenced by politics. Twitter is a wasteland filled with dummies spewing crazy ####, and pretty much all of it goes untouched. They seem to only role up their sleeves and get involved when it comes to fighting the scourge of the right. I dont recall big tech pushing back against all the calls for rioting and violence by the left over the summer.
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You’d have to be addicted to emotionally potent oversimplifications to not see that people need to be held accountable in accordance with the cause and effect of their actions.
False equivalencies and logical fallacies are now being punted into the sun along side the cognitive biases that generated them.
They will no longer be tolerated the way they have been.
Failures in the traditional generation, dissemination, and implementation of logical, factual based knowledge has left a vacuum to be filled by conspiracy theories and nonsense peddled by narcissistic politicians.
The consequences of ignoring this are now undeniable.
The challenge now is to vet, organize, and communicate knowledge in ways that take then energy of misunderstandings and use it to create better outcomes.
It’s time to be adults and realize that if you identify as a conservative, you want a better liberal argument to better your thought process. If you identify as a liberal, you want to better conservative argument to improve your thinking.
The left and the right need each other to avoid spinning in circles.
In any walk of life, we do not improve unless we are challenged.
Right now the reckless, disorganized, and unaccountable thinking on social media makes this almost impossible.
It won’t be easy, but emotionally potent oversimplification is easy and that is what enabled this mess.