ok, not exactly amazing, considering adventures of the term fake news and what is going on with free speech on campuses and elsewhere over the last couple of years.
a few quotes
Fake news is in large part a product of the enthusiasm — not to say rage — for transparency and absolutely free speech.that should be enough to get an idea of what it is all about. but here's more:
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silence and the withholding and sequestering of speech may be useful and even necessary in some contexts, like the preparing of a report or maintaining of a marriage.
by itself information doesn’t do anything; its effects depend on the motives of those who make use of it, and raw information (that is, data) cannot distinguish between benign and malign appropriations of itself.это почти по-лениниски. диалектика. см. Партийная организация и партийная литература.
one last quote:
That is the world of fake news. It is created by the undermining of trust in the traditional vehicles of authority and legitimation — major newspapers, professional associations, credentialed academics, standard encyclopedias, government bureaus, federal courts, prime-time nightly news anchors.интересно, что Структуру научных революций Куна практически одновременно пнул некий Errol Morris в Boston Review: Is There Such a Thing as Truth?. открыт сезон охоты на Куна?
upd 06/30/18: в развитие темы fake news/free speech - How Free Speech Is Being Used as a Weapon by Conservatives: As a result, many on the left have traded an absolutist commitment to free speech for one sensitive to the harms it can inflict.
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