<story><title>YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”</title><url>https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/1332746158947635202</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xfeba</author><text>&amp;gt; Children are taught to not question what they&amp;#x27;re told, because it&amp;#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&amp;#x27;t question what they&amp;#x27;re told. Then when they&amp;#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&amp;#x27;ve been miseducated and they&amp;#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m gonna guess you don&amp;#x27;t have children. Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don&amp;#x27;t understand nuance at all. It&amp;#x27;s not because it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;easier on parents and teachers&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s because it&amp;#x27;s what works.&lt;p&gt;You add nuance later in middle and high school.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>Children are taught to not question what they&amp;#x27;re told, because it&amp;#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&amp;#x27;t question what they&amp;#x27;re told. Then when they&amp;#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&amp;#x27;ve been miseducated and they&amp;#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.&lt;p&gt;To me, the solution is obviously better education. When people believe the Earth is round only because that&amp;#x27;s what they were told, it&amp;#x27;s not that hard for a clever talker to convince them the Earth could be flat. When people know the Earth is round because they actually understand the physics behind it, there&amp;#x27;s no way you&amp;#x27;re ever going to convince them the Earth is flat.&lt;p&gt;Instead of admitting our education system has failed, people&amp;#x27;s ignorance is being used as an excuse to tighten control over the media even further.</text></item><item><author>3663288262</author><text>Speaking as a lurker, this seems basically like what people have been asking for for awhile now including here. I remember seeing numerous top comment chains over the last four years (and of course before that but not here) that all boiled down to very eloquent defenses of censoring fringe thinkers.&lt;p&gt;Who knows, maybe in theory land there&amp;#x27;s no reason we can&amp;#x27;t have it both ways. But it seems to me that in the real world precisely the opposite is true. We can&amp;#x27;t demand increasingly invasive and opaque mechanisms to prevent the spread of misinformation (once upon a time many examples of which would have just been called &amp;quot;gossip&amp;quot; or the &amp;quot;rumor mill&amp;quot;) and then act surpised when radicals for our own important causes get swept up in the net. At some point we either have to admit that what we really want to build is a like-minded dictorship or we have to start discussing (in a sober manner devoid of the histrionics and gamesmanship that have come to envelope contemporary dialogues) what an intellient compromise in objectives might look like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leto_ii</author><text>&amp;gt; Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don&amp;#x27;t understand nuance at all.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have kids myself, but I do remember how it is to be a child, having been one myself a while ago :D&lt;p&gt;I can assure you kids understand nuance quite well if they&amp;#x27;re explained things properly, patiently, in a friendly manner.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”</title><url>https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/1332746158947635202</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xfeba</author><text>&amp;gt; Children are taught to not question what they&amp;#x27;re told, because it&amp;#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&amp;#x27;t question what they&amp;#x27;re told. Then when they&amp;#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&amp;#x27;ve been miseducated and they&amp;#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m gonna guess you don&amp;#x27;t have children. Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don&amp;#x27;t understand nuance at all. It&amp;#x27;s not because it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;easier on parents and teachers&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s because it&amp;#x27;s what works.&lt;p&gt;You add nuance later in middle and high school.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>Children are taught to not question what they&amp;#x27;re told, because it&amp;#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&amp;#x27;t question what they&amp;#x27;re told. Then when they&amp;#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&amp;#x27;ve been miseducated and they&amp;#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.&lt;p&gt;To me, the solution is obviously better education. When people believe the Earth is round only because that&amp;#x27;s what they were told, it&amp;#x27;s not that hard for a clever talker to convince them the Earth could be flat. When people know the Earth is round because they actually understand the physics behind it, there&amp;#x27;s no way you&amp;#x27;re ever going to convince them the Earth is flat.&lt;p&gt;Instead of admitting our education system has failed, people&amp;#x27;s ignorance is being used as an excuse to tighten control over the media even further.</text></item><item><author>3663288262</author><text>Speaking as a lurker, this seems basically like what people have been asking for for awhile now including here. I remember seeing numerous top comment chains over the last four years (and of course before that but not here) that all boiled down to very eloquent defenses of censoring fringe thinkers.&lt;p&gt;Who knows, maybe in theory land there&amp;#x27;s no reason we can&amp;#x27;t have it both ways. But it seems to me that in the real world precisely the opposite is true. We can&amp;#x27;t demand increasingly invasive and opaque mechanisms to prevent the spread of misinformation (once upon a time many examples of which would have just been called &amp;quot;gossip&amp;quot; or the &amp;quot;rumor mill&amp;quot;) and then act surpised when radicals for our own important causes get swept up in the net. At some point we either have to admit that what we really want to build is a like-minded dictorship or we have to start discussing (in a sober manner devoid of the histrionics and gamesmanship that have come to envelope contemporary dialogues) what an intellient compromise in objectives might look like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calibas</author><text>Young children absolutely need easy-to-follow directions because they can&amp;#x27;t follow complicated directions.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not arguing against easy-to-follow directions, so I don&amp;#x27;t quite see your point. I&amp;#x27;m against parents and schools encouraging unquestioning obedience to their directions.</text></comment>