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Episode 1942 Scott Adams: Censorship Controls Voting. Control The Message, Control The Country

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

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Is Twitter a Confirmation Bias Generator?

People are actually calling for Twitter to return to the rules before a mosque. They're asking to go back to what they have to know by now was total censorship. I believe that Twitter has always been anti-hate speech. If there's misinformation, they'll put a tag on it so you've got some context. It's the same rules. But people are going to imagine a different experience, right? The left is going to imagine that Twitter turned into a hell hole, even if it doesn't. And the right is going to Imagine that the controls were taken off - and you'll think, oh, it's because the censorship came off. So we're deeply in confirmation bias territory

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