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Cites pas · 2020-12 · on “The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire”

It doesn't have much to do with age. It's the same problem as the "both sides" approach to anything [0] ("my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"). This inherently just moves the problem to decide who's informed (or equivalently what's the required level of "informedness"). Many jurisdictions routinely suspend people's voting rights. Due process and all. Of course when it comes to giving them back after they've served their sentence the process somehow slows down. So I'm fully aware of the downsides of this. I'm not advocating for doing that to any concrete group of people, I'm advocating for working on this problem. It's not the first time this has come up in history, nor the last.

Cites sfteus · 2022-01 · on “Joe Rogan Apologizes, Spotify Publishes Content Policy in Response to Neil Young”

I keep seeing the same general sentiment through these types of threads, something in the nature of "if the scientists are so sure they're right, they shouldn't be afraid of mis-information because only their data will stand up to scrutiny." The fact that Rogan has these types of people on his show is not the issue, and just as you say it's fine to interview them. The issue is that he tends to take a backseat and let the interviewee make whatever claims without any push-back[1]. Simply having an episode with a pro-vaccine person and another episode with an anti-vaccine person is implying that both viewpoints are equal, which in my opinion they are not. HN is sort of unique in that likely a l