I am tired of being fooled on the internet. I think we need some Truth in Posting laws to go along with truth in advertising, lending and such. I am referring to the false claims of unattributed links. This thinking started with the numerous uses of Babylon Bee ideas.
I would suggest that emojis be required to tell us if the information being passed came from a humor or satire site or if it was intended as satire by the authors. Maybe we could have certain fonts reserved for specific venues. It is amazing how many people have no sense of humor or discernment and can go off thinking that the Democrats actually wanted to fly flags at half mast to honor the recent Iranian general’s demise. This could cause people of the left to look like fools because they act like these stories are true. They are laughable enough without this added aggravation.
While we are at it we might require that sites like the New York Times and Washington Post have an emoji all their own. It would also help to have links that require you to sign in or subscribe to get the whole story be labeled and save us time.
I am getting old. I don’t have time to waste. Do we need a Constitutional Amendment for this?
homo unius libri
lol - Sounds like I ain't the only curmudgeon around here! I figure MOST of my readers are smart enough to know satire when they see it, but then I've been fooled a few times myself. I often don't repost satire on Facebook, since the IQ averages a little lower there. You're probably aware that some "anti-liberal" fake stuff is actually posted by liberals themselves, hoping that conservatives will run with it and end up with egg on their face.
ReplyDeleteI never thought they were that clever but you may have a point.
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This is only an issue nowadays because it's so plausible that people might actually think or do ridiculous things. In the past we would have questioned it.
ReplyDeleteLike the guy who wrote the musical piece which consisted of a "pianist" sitting at a piano for a period of time and playing nothing.
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