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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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[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The writer here seems confused. Free speech thrives online. There is no freer a place to speak than the Internet.

What they seem to take issue with is that free speech isn't always the path to truth. This was never a condition of free speech, and the lack of truth online doesn't make the speech there any less free.

In fact, free speech is the very force that allows people to lie with impunity. Maybe there would be more truth if speech were less free.

[–] mark@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God I could kiss you. It's so weird. People have been just saying what's on their minds in chatrooms, forums, etc since the beginning of the internet, which was never scrutinized this much over being "factual". They were just expressing themselves. But now all of sudden we need a PSA to stop it lol