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Reason's Nick Gillespie wrote in 2019:
Is Donald Trump's vision of what is wrong with America and how to fix it true or is Bernie Sanders'? I'd say neither is.But what the internet does (especially platforms like Facebook and Twitter) is enable more of us to directly enter the discussion—the argument over who is right and who is wrong. That's a great and liberating development.
Indeed, it is. But our ability to have that argument — to sift through the raw data, past articles, news photographs, etc. — depends on having sources that are both shared and reliable. We used to settle arguments by pulling out a dictionary or a volume from the nearest encyclopedia. Or maybe the Guinness Book, which has reportedly settled more bar bets than any other resource.
But now everything has moved online and,despite what people believe, the internet is not forever.
"We can fact-check your a**," pioneer blogger Ken Layne reminded Big Media back in 2001. We built an entire alternative media based on "navigating this thicket of censorship and quasi-censorship," as Brownstone put it.
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But maybe PRESERVE would be more appropriate today.
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