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> Our entire current system of spreading information seems to allow liars who get popular on basically false outrage bait to have a huge megaphone. I'm not sure how to stop this without a centralized authority shutting it down.

Centralized authorities are immune from demagoguery? You would throw out the first amendment to protect us from liars getting megaphones?

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This isn't a 1st amendment issue.

Before social media things were generally better and we didn't have big groups like qanon or people storming the capital trying to end democracy.

Back then we did have centralized authorities doing quality control on the airwaves.

Bonus army would disagree there. Dispersed with tanks.

That was almost 100 years ago. I'm talking about 20 years ago here.

A centralized authority shutting down conversations is not a first amendment issue because of qanon and January 6th?

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