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Request to remove c/antivax (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Communities that promote misleading information and conspiracy theories should be not allowed.

PS I propose to add this rule to lemmy.ml rules

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I understand your point, but I think what we all learned very recently is that idiots will be idiots regardless of what you show them.

Look at people from /r/joerogan for example, antivax and antimasks and such. No matter what information you show them, they always have their own biased (non factual, wrong) sources. They just hide in that. Is it not better to just cut the propagation of false information from the start? Avoid the congregation of sick/wrong ideas?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As they say, you can't convince someone with facts out of a position that they ended up in without looking at the facts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

No, but you can convince them by being close enough to them that your distaste for their nonsense is palpable and constant.

That can't happen if you've chased them off though.