The problem here isnt too much internet but not enough.
This is a cultural clash where ignorance can only be dealt with by more information and education.
Blaming Whatsapp or even mentioning it does not deal with the problem but only demonises part of the solution.
Mob mentality didn’t just start here. #realwitchhunt
I wish it were that simple, but the internet (and the traditional media) have been tricked into spreading Trumpism like a virus. They put his tweets in the headlines of their articles, and in their rush to publish they don’t bother to research them and qualify them as “Trump falsely clams” or some such. Human brains accept repetition as truth. So more internet just spreads more trumpism. And that also goes for his degrading nicknames for people, which I won’t include here because that spreads them even more, even if you are mentioning them to criticize them.
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So you think that by reducing access to more information over the internet will improve their ability to discern truth from lies?
No! it is that simple. More knowledge not less is the only way forward.
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Nope. More doesn’t magically make all better.
What we need is strategy, better framing, using strong tactics to pro-actively counter the Trump messaging. Trump is winning. “More” isn’t working.
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Everything you’re saying equates to more information not less. You are contradicting yourself in the same sentence.
Let’s use an analogy to your unqualified claim that more - just more - is better. Let’s say you have a container of deadly, contaminated food. Do you just say “We need more food!” (without specifying that it needs to be safe food) and indiscriminately add the additional food to the deadly, contaminated food?
Just “more” is not the answer.
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