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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I think we've always thrived on outrage.

Before social media we had newspapers. Sure, we had real serious newspapers where the headlines where printed in a serif font, and mostly contained news about share prices and the political ramifications of abandoning the gold standard, but that wasn't what the masses bought.

We had tabloids. Look at what the BARMY EU want to ban now. Check out what BOFFINS are doing to dogs. Here's a 16 year old with her tits out. Look at this man on BENEFITS with 10 kids.

The only objective actual reporting in them was the sports pages at the back, and the TV guide in the middle.

We've always been like this. I have no answers how to make things better. We'd have to want to be better, and I don't believe most people do.