j.r. leonard

Isn’t this a legitimate concern? I think misinformation, particularly when public schools don’t teach information literacy, is a rather big problem in our democracy. Evident on things such as vaccines, and whether Obama was born in America.

I’m just wondering why it’s always other people who are the excuse

Because those folks are the ones sharing social media memes about vaccines causing autism, and about how mass shootings are false flag operations. Also they vote for people like Trump.

So the answer is just garden-variety censoriousness

I’m not sure what garden-variety means in this context but I think the concern is that misinformation and disinformation might actually result in widespread harm to human beings. Concerned about this harm is valid.

Sure. A concern about human well being that just happens to systematically overweight the sophistication and oneself and the credulity of those with whom we happen to have disagreements It’s very convenient

Overweight the sophistication? Who is saying it’s sophisticated? Bad views about vaccines being shared virally has nothing to do with sophistication and everything to do with ethics. We have a moral responsibility to take down dangerous stuff like that.

I would argue that we have a moral responsibility to act with some small measure of epistemic humility. But that’s just me