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You are assuming that the market place of ideas selects for correctness rather than virality.


We might get a bit closer if our communication tools encouraged correctness rather than virality.


Which they never will without some central power because the (economic)market selects for virality when it comes to communication tools.

The action of that central power will be called censorship.

You could also try to have some guarantee of interoperability to reduce network effects and thus make the market effect weaker and reduce the selection for virality. That seems like something we could try.




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