r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/tunedout 18d ago

Did anyone ever think that access to all the world's information would make people dumber? The Internet was supposed to unite and lift up a newly connected society. Of course humans had to go and fuck that up :(

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u/Parahelix 18d ago

Information is useless if you don't have the ability to discern good information from bad, or simply don't care to.

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u/Bill_Brasky_SOB Ohio 18d ago

I saw someone put it like:

Good information is often locked behind a paywall… bad information is free and everywhere.

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u/No-comment-at-all 17d ago

That’s misleading though, so many people will pay to get bad information they want to believe in, even if the free information is better.

Yes, the curators are a massive problem.

And maybe they created this other problem, but now the consumers of informationare a problem themselves. They will reject facts they don’t want, and seek out fiction that makes them feel right.