zlacker

You don't "trust" often or very much. You look for a society where conflicting ideas are encouraged and are based in reason not whacky extremist ideology. You trust good disagreements and debates, you look for argument and parties which try to convince with facts and solid arguments.

We can't just live in a world where my side is right and your side is evil.

The strength of the US system of government and any democracy comes from diversity of thought and opinion which is good enough and respectful enough to actually be interested in arriving at the truth.

Instead we have political process which is somewhere between a reality show, a sporting event, and a religion.

>>colech+(OP)
What does that say about social media censors and "fact checkers"?

>>chmod6+l3
Social media is in a very confuzed middle ground between publisher and public square. I don't want them to be the arbiters of truth nor do I want them to be megaphones for misinformation nor powerful tools for easy population manipulation... but here we are. The solutions aren't just in content moderation, but whatever it is, it is difficult.

>>colech+Z4
"Megaphone" is a bad analogy. You hear a megaphone whether you want to or not, and it interferes with other discussion.

Social media was blocking posts that people wanted to read and even blocked private messages. That's privatized censorship; there's no other word for it.

I am honestly dumbfounded that people are excusing it.