Where do you draw the line? New York Times has a big and diverse op-ed section. I don't think the line is clear enough for the distinction. For me they are one and the same: tools connecting members of a community together.
It's a tool for manufacturing consent
Any community is a manufactured consent: members consent by participating, and the community maintains consent by shunning. Therefore, tools for building communities, be they BBS, IRC, Discord, Facebook, must indeed manufacture consent.
it's not a particularly useful tool if you want to inform people or encourage critical thinking
The tool most credited with critical thinking, academic journals, are heavily regulated by publishers and then by peer reviews. An unregulated marketplace of idea is biased towards the reckless, the deceitful, the zealous, and most scarily, the intolerant. This is the Paradox of tolerance, described by Karl Popper in his The Open Society and Its Enemies as a fundamental threat to the integrity of an open community.
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Where do you draw the line? New York Times has a big and diverse op-ed section. I don't think the line is clear enough for the distinction. For me they are one and the same: tools connecting members of a community together.
Any community is a manufactured consent: members consent by participating, and the community maintains consent by shunning. Therefore, tools for building communities, be they BBS, IRC, Discord, Facebook, must indeed manufacture consent.
The tool most credited with critical thinking, academic journals, are heavily regulated by publishers and then by peer reviews. An unregulated marketplace of idea is biased towards the reckless, the deceitful, the zealous, and most scarily, the intolerant. This is the Paradox of tolerance, described by Karl Popper in his The Open Society and Its Enemies as a fundamental threat to the integrity of an open community.