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Originally Posted by STEED

We all know the web is big real big. Tons of information is out there are we sure in what we are reading? In the terms of world events or even local home news.

Part of being on the internet is that you must take everything you read with a grain of salt. This requires common sense. That actually is it's archilles heel as well, since many people lack common sense and the ability to analyze. Sadly, that leaves many believing every last word they read. Anyway, that is why I wrote the World Wide Web of Misinformation post here earlier. Their is plenty of mis-information to be found out there.

As a test yesterday, I was reading a Truth blog, and purposely posted something against the blogs article that was completely contradictory to what they were trying to say - and to back it up, I used logic and evidence. Guess what? They never posted my reply, yet continued to post everyone elses reply that was pro article. Further evidence that it is easy to find sites pushing a particular view and if you disagree, you won't ever get your say or be acknowledged. All mis-information. Nice.

There is hope at least since science classes in any University teach how to question and analyze articles that you read as a requirement. We need this sort of training, but sadly again, many people will never go to college to hear or study these kinds of ideas that teach us to be critical of what it is we read.

I think all of this helps spread radicalism and ideas related. The question is, what is the solution or answer to this mis-information, and how can it be fixed? Or can it be fixed? This is again technology (In this case, the communication area of technology) growing faster than we can deal with and we have a clear lack of control of it. THen again, is it something that we want control of? I dunno. A case of more questions than answers again.

-S