| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check 22:33 - Jun 15 with 4854 views | ElderGrizzly |
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| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 11:48 - Jun 16 with 382 views | Ryorry |
| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 11:27 - Jun 16 by WeWereZombies |
What I am getting at is the 'one tree can make a thousand matches, one match can burn a thousand trees' effect. But perhaps it isn't just Facebook and Twitter, I've just been watching the Richard Madeley clips on another thread or for some time have pondered how national newspapers lead their readers on to think in a certain way.
If insufficient numbers are taught critical thinking then even those who are rational can get caught out by views that have become the norm, which is why Goebbels was so important to the Nazis. So, for example, we have to ask ourselves was Beaverbrook just Goebbels Lite or substantially different enough to be providing an impassioned Daily Express for the right reasons? |
I don't have time for a philos discussion right now tbh, anther time maybe, but I agree on critical thinking & do get annoyed at ppl telling others not to use what is actually a superb educational, incredibly useful & fun platform - if they take the time & trouble to learn to use it properly.
Telling ppl not to use Twtter cos it's "bad" is the 21stC equivalent of telling people not to read books cos some were written by Jilly Cooper or Jeffrey Archer. |  |
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| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 11:56 - Jun 16 with 372 views | WeWereZombies |
| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 11:48 - Jun 16 by Ryorry |
I don't have time for a philos discussion right now tbh, anther time maybe, but I agree on critical thinking & do get annoyed at ppl telling others not to use what is actually a superb educational, incredibly useful & fun platform - if they take the time & trouble to learn to use it properly.
Telling ppl not to use Twtter cos it's "bad" is the 21stC equivalent of telling people not to read books cos some were written by Jilly Cooper or Jeffrey Archer. |
The scare quotes around 'bad' were perhaps necessary as what I actually posted was that social media might better be called antisocial media, not quite the same as a blanket 'bad'. And if you don't have time for discussion why go to the trouble of down voting the post (not that uppies or downies greatly influence me). Its a very simple point in my first post of this 'sub-thread' that really needs no new discussion anyway, the argument against the tyranny of the majority has been around since John Stuart Mill at least:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyranny%20of%20the%20majority |  |
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| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 11:57 - Jun 16 with 376 views | BlueBadger |
| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 00:16 - Jun 16 by XYZ |
I saw mention today that Biden was discussing a joint US/ EU position on "big tech" in an effort to counter chinese activity.
My guess is he'll get a listening ear.
Post-brexit UK will be left with no choice but to comply whilst claiming it wouldn't have been possible if we'd remained sensible. |
The government have no interest in reining in online misinformation because fact-checking nebulous horsesh1t would probably undermine their whole media strategy.
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-06/88-of-conservative-ads-on-facebook-misleadin [Post edited 16 Jun 2021 11:57]
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| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 12:06 - Jun 16 with 354 views | BlueBadger |
| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 08:36 - Jun 16 by Guthrum |
Not to mention temperature sensor guns affecting your pineal gland and thus, presumably, disturbing (or improving) your sleep patterns. |
The in-the-ear ones are worse. They shoot Vaccine Rays straight into your brain. | |
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| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 12:13 - Jun 16 with 339 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 08:55 - Jun 16 by DanTheMan |
Anything I don't like is communism. |
It's very frightening reading some of those comments. There seems to be a woo view that temperature sensors are frying our brains, for example. Absolute nonsense with no basis in fact whatsoever of course (they work the other way round; they record infrared radiation being emitted by the person, not being 'zapped' from the 'gun'), but it's surprising how many people latch on to such nonsense. |  |
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| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 12:20 - Jun 16 with 313 views | Ryorry |
| Mr Karen refused hospital treatment for not taking a Covid Test/temp check on 12:13 - Jun 16 by Swansea_Blue |
It's very frightening reading some of those comments. There seems to be a woo view that temperature sensors are frying our brains, for example. Absolute nonsense with no basis in fact whatsoever of course (they work the other way round; they record infrared radiation being emitted by the person, not being 'zapped' from the 'gun'), but it's surprising how many people latch on to such nonsense. |
Like I said, they're just conspiracy-theorist trolls seeking attention. We've had a few on here in our time. | |
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