The problem isn’t people falling for stupid shit. The problem is that people are afraid to be wrong. Sounds counter intuitive, but let me explain.
People attach too much ego onto being correct, such that when someone is wrong, it is seen as a weakness. Thus, once they have their theory, they’re afraid to let go of it no matter how wrong they’re proven, thus they will latch onto any other explanation, no matter how out there. You might have seen it yourself when people double down.
But once someone can recognise they are wrong, then they can course-correct.
Being wrong is an important part of the process to being right. And part of that is stating your theory.
It is not facts that we are truly battling here but egos. You will not see progress by shutting down conversation and telling them they’re wrong. The fix needs a more emotionally intelligent approach.
Right, but when you do this to a topic that isn’t causing harm, you risk incurring a Streisand Effect and you don’t have the moral standing that you do with things like anti-vax or COVID deniers. So masses of people can end up sharing flat earth material just to spite you and your overzealous moderation.
You can try point to the alt-right recruitments all you like, but people will point you straight back at your conservatism or Christianity topics.
People are allowed to be wrong or even be idiots. When they start causing actual harm is where the line should be drawn.
The problem isn’t people falling for stupid shit. The problem is that people are afraid to be wrong. Sounds counter intuitive, but let me explain.
People attach too much ego onto being correct, such that when someone is wrong, it is seen as a weakness. Thus, once they have their theory, they’re afraid to let go of it no matter how wrong they’re proven, thus they will latch onto any other explanation, no matter how out there. You might have seen it yourself when people double down.
But once someone can recognise they are wrong, then they can course-correct.
Being wrong is an important part of the process to being right. And part of that is stating your theory.
It is not facts that we are truly battling here but egos. You will not see progress by shutting down conversation and telling them they’re wrong. The fix needs a more emotionally intelligent approach.
The point is deplatforming is to prevent new people from falling into the conspiracy shit. Not about convincing the ones who have already fallen.
Right, but when you do this to a topic that isn’t causing harm, you risk incurring a Streisand Effect and you don’t have the moral standing that you do with things like anti-vax or COVID deniers. So masses of people can end up sharing flat earth material just to spite you and your overzealous moderation.
You can try point to the alt-right recruitments all you like, but people will point you straight back at your conservatism or Christianity topics.
People are allowed to be wrong or even be idiots. When they start causing actual harm is where the line should be drawn.