In a word, dumb. If you're under the age where you understand how algorithms work, there's nothing new here and the narrative laid out is that technology is causing our problems (a traditionalist trope) instead of it being the inability of a large part of our population to change fast enough.
If someone watches a YouTube video that convinces them that the world is flat, they're dumb. It's not more complicated than that. I feel like people who aren't morons who grew up with the internet understand not to trust things that you hear on it, and that really is what the message needs to be, simply, "don't take things on faith." Whoever you're listening to is probably at the very least massaging the facts, and that's ok. It's just human nature to do that. Our problem isn't the internet puts bad ideas out there; it's that some people are unable to reject bad ideas. It's on them.
Shout by No WayBlockedParent2020-09-24T22:02:44Z
In a word, dumb. If you're under the age where you understand how algorithms work, there's nothing new here and the narrative laid out is that technology is causing our problems (a traditionalist trope) instead of it being the inability of a large part of our population to change fast enough.
If someone watches a YouTube video that convinces them that the world is flat, they're dumb. It's not more complicated than that. I feel like people who aren't morons who grew up with the internet understand not to trust things that you hear on it, and that really is what the message needs to be, simply, "don't take things on faith." Whoever you're listening to is probably at the very least massaging the facts, and that's ok. It's just human nature to do that. Our problem isn't the internet puts bad ideas out there; it's that some people are unable to reject bad ideas. It's on them.