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Whose the one deciding what the truth is?

Not a green account on HN, that's for sure.

But what about ones with malicious comments breaking HN rules like yours?

Definitely not foreign influence operators.

You're beating it around the bush not answering the question.

I think a commission of experts, put into place (but not supervised) by the democratically elected government, with judicial review as check & balance seems like a good first draft, but governance isn't my expertise.

Tbh the details don't really matter, what matters is that we ban this propaganda before it destroys us.


>assuming a false identity

Whose identity is being faked?

I always grew up with the assumption that everything on the internet is most likely fake.

That girl you're talking to? Probably a dude. The Nigerian prince asking for money. Probably a scammer.

Unless it's a government website with secure ID login, every account you see online is probably fake.


If you invent a person and assume their identity, that's still a false identity.

> I always grew up with the assumption that everything on the internet is most likely fake.

How you interact with the internet is not really relevant to the discussion. The average person does not interact with the internet in the same way that people on this forum do, so that should not be the yardstick by which we judge this.


>assuming a false identity

Is vertigo22 a real identity or a fake one?

>The average person does not interact with the internet in the same way that people on this forum do

How other "average" people (am I not average too?) choose to use the internet is irelevant to everyone needing to doxx themselves online from now on.


Ha, I can only wish. Maybe true if you live in NYC, SF, Berlin or London.

But most of these don't exist or help with socializing and making new connections where I live (medium sized European university city).

Everyone here only hangs out with their family and school/university mates and that's it. Any other available events are either for college students or lonely retirees but nothing in between.


> Everyone here only hangs out with their family and school/university mates and that's it.

If you can get a few people from 2 of these groups together more than once, you've started solving this problem. Of course keeping it going for a long time is a challenge, and you want to avoid always being in the situation where you are doing all the work and others aren't contributing, but it gets easier and better with experience.


Except that if you're not anyone's family and not in university anymore then you're shit out of luck as people in their 30s already have their social circles already completed and don't have space, time and energy to add new strangers when they barely have free time to hang out with their existing clique.

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