There have been so many anti-vax and election denialism posts and users, and shit that are just allowed to keep existing because “We can’t disprove it”, yeah no shit: you can’t disprove anything. The burden is on the person making the claim, not the person refuting it.
There have been so many anti-vax and election denialism posts and users, and shit that are just allowed to keep existing because “We can’t disprove it”, yeah no shit: you can’t disprove anything.
If you can’t disprove it, then how do you know it’s misinformation?
The burden is on the person making the claim, not the person refuting it.
First, that’s not a threshold even science has. There are a ton of scientific theories that have no evidene and are untestable, like String Theory, that scientists postulate as a means seeing if it can be proven, not because it is proven.
You’re confusing your threshold for believing something with a person’s threshold for postulating something. You have no right to dictate what someone else can think or say just because you don’t personally believe it or that it’s been proven.
Should the Reddit admins ban all users who denied Trump won the 2016 election? Btw, a huge portion of Reddit users still claim that and push propaganda to that effect. I think it’s disgusting, but it shouldn’t be banned.
Nero is fiddling while Rome burns.
There have been so many anti-vax and election denialism posts and users, and shit that are just allowed to keep existing because “We can’t disprove it”, yeah no shit: you can’t disprove anything. The burden is on the person making the claim, not the person refuting it.
If you can’t disprove it, then how do you know it’s misinformation?
First, that’s not a threshold even science has. There are a ton of scientific theories that have no evidene and are untestable, like String Theory, that scientists postulate as a means seeing if it can be proven, not because it is proven.
You’re confusing your threshold for believing something with a person’s threshold for postulating something. You have no right to dictate what someone else can think or say just because you don’t personally believe it or that it’s been proven.
Should the Reddit admins ban all users who denied Trump won the 2016 election? Btw, a huge portion of Reddit users still claim that and push propaganda to that effect. I think it’s disgusting, but it shouldn’t be banned.