This is such an insane war on "misinformation".

I would give anything to go back to usenet and that everything would be taken with a grain of salt because it is usenet.

That is never going to happen though. We are society of automatons now who have mostly outsourced their thinking to the mob/group mind of social media.

If you read Le Bon or Freud's work on group psychology it may as well be talking about social media in 2022.

"The feelings of the group are always very simple and very exaggerated. So that the group knows neither doubt nor uncertainty. It goes directly to extremes, if a suspicion is expressed, it is instantly changed into an incontrovertible certainty."

With Thunderous Applause.

Free speech has nothing to do with whether a website chose to join an international sanction.

The actual censorship is Putin's 15 year punishment for news he doesn't like.

I wish enough of HN understood free speech at a level to pass a test in 8th grade that we would embarrass one another when getting things this wrong.

It really hampers our ability to function in the real world, the way we reject any constraint involving text and then say "but muh free speech"

This isn't intelligent or correct

It’s been less than a single ~~generation~~ human lifespan since WW2, stop pretending like our species has transcended simply because we can send some 0s and 1s across the world.

There is war. People are dying, and you’re here commenting about free speech and your lack of access to 0s and 1s.

Edit: My usage of the term “generation” was pointed out to be wrong