Strawmen all the way down
Strawmen all the way down
Posted Dec 25, 2025 21:28 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Trying tot redefine reinstall? by josh
Parent article: A partial ruling in the Vizio GPL suit
= most of public discourse nowadays. Intentionally and not.
Communication is hard: you can never completely understand someone else. So it's much safer and more "reliable" to argue with oneself. In the same vein: prefer screens to minimize live interactions and exposure to different opinions. The latter can hurt!
How often do you see opinions actually evolve online? LWN comments is one of those rare non-echo chambers where it can still happen BTW.
It's sad to see even judges falling for this now... but judges can't stay forever isolated from new (a)social norms.
Don't get me wrong: even the entirety of public discourse still comes from a very small minority. And millions of views or clicks does not necessarily mean millions of people in full agreement. So there is still a chance "real" people are interested in listening to more than themselves.
Elections should be a better metric than clicks but voting systems have been getting from bad to worse :-(