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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Upvotes and downvotes have always been agree and disagree buttons. Reddit trying to pretend they were ever anything else was folly.

Hell, even calling them upvote and downvotes is a misnomer if all you're trying to do is promote discussion. Even then, it's silly to think that most up or downvoted to oblivion comments aren't there for a reason. More often than not it just tells you what that community's and parent comments biases are lol.