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Because there are a lot… A LOT of stupid/ignorant people in the world.
I have to interact every now and then with someone who is a MrBeast stan. He’s in his 20s or 30s and has a kid of his own. He’s also a fan of xxtentacion and even when he was confronted with facts about MrBeast being a scammer and abuser, and xxtentacion beating his pregnant girlfriend, he said it was just haters making up stories. I literally linked him an NBC article about whatever current controversial shit MrBeast was up to at the time, and he said that “y’know you really shouldn’t trust .com domains.”
Dude is a lost cause and he regularly tries to recruit others to watch MrBeast or buy his products.
So basically half of internet? What a stupid stance.
“Don’t trust half of the internet” is really not that stupid idea, although it should be much higher than half. But that approach from above is of course stupid on many different levels.
I don’t disagree with Mr Beast being a scammer and abuser, and I also don’t disagree with a domain not being untrustworthy just because it’s a .com domain.
That being said, I should point out that the news/media isn’t exactly reliable. NBC is no exception. Even if the article is true (which it most likely is), I wouldn’t blame someone for not trusting NBC.
I get it that the media is captured by billionaires but my point is that I don’t think that NBC, a network that has been around for 100 years, would put their reputation on the line to publish lies about a random wealthy YouTuber, who likely has lawyers on retainer that could sue for libel if they really were making stuff up.
That’s not what they said though. They said a .com domain was not trustworthy. Its a disyrust of ‘mainstream’ media.
As you yourself point out, NBC is not automatically trustworthy, but the choice of domain is not the reason why. The billionaire and corporate influence, combined with clickbait journalism is why.
Someone not trusting NBC is fine. Someone choosing to believe that it’s fake news just because it’s mainstream media when it refers to verifiabke facts and a mainstream personality is a failure of our society to adapt to the online world. A failure of education and a failure of media control and regulation.
Because there are a lot… A LOT of stupid/ignorant people in the world.
I have to interact every now and then with someone who is a MrBeast stan. He’s in his 20s or 30s and has a kid of his own. He’s also a fan of xxtentacion and even when he was confronted with facts about MrBeast being a scammer and abuser, and xxtentacion beating his pregnant girlfriend, he said it was just haters making up stories. I literally linked him an NBC article about whatever current controversial shit MrBeast was up to at the time, and he said that “y’know you really shouldn’t trust .com domains.”
Dude is a lost cause and he regularly tries to recruit others to watch MrBeast or buy his products.
So basically half of internet? What a stupid stance.
“Don’t trust half of the internet” is really not that stupid idea, although it should be much higher than half. But that approach from above is of course stupid on many different levels.
I don’t disagree with Mr Beast being a scammer and abuser, and I also don’t disagree with a domain not being untrustworthy just because it’s a .com domain.
That being said, I should point out that the news/media isn’t exactly reliable. NBC is no exception. Even if the article is true (which it most likely is), I wouldn’t blame someone for not trusting NBC.
I get it that the media is captured by billionaires but my point is that I don’t think that NBC, a network that has been around for 100 years, would put their reputation on the line to publish lies about a random wealthy YouTuber, who likely has lawyers on retainer that could sue for libel if they really were making stuff up.
“i DuNnO, mAn. TrUmP sUeS pEoPlE a LoT, sO tHeY mUsT bE fAkE111!!1!!1!”
That’s not what they said though. They said a .com domain was not trustworthy. Its a disyrust of ‘mainstream’ media.
As you yourself point out, NBC is not automatically trustworthy, but the choice of domain is not the reason why. The billionaire and corporate influence, combined with clickbait journalism is why.
Someone not trusting NBC is fine. Someone choosing to believe that it’s fake news just because it’s mainstream media when it refers to verifiabke facts and a mainstream personality is a failure of our society to adapt to the online world. A failure of education and a failure of media control and regulation.