Just like apples/fruit from medieval times were tart and sour and full of seeds, and through generations of selective breeding are now super sweet and not necessarily still good for you.

The old town crier is very removed from todays social media.

Yes, a newspaper from 1800's was pretty biased. But does that justify todays hyper targeted algorithms as a-ok?

That something happened in the past is not a good argument that it is a-ok today.

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hrimfaxi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The argument wasn't "this is okay", the argument was "your past where the liars were punished never was".

> Remember when lying could get you in trouble?

> It's always been this way, though.

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FrustratedMonky 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Contempt of court is a thing.

Lying under oath is a thing.

This did exist.

Testifying to Congress under oath, lying did use to have penalties.

	▲	CrzyLngPwd 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But rarely for the rich and powerful, only for us little people.

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CrzyLngPwd 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I never said it was okay; it's just not new.

	▲	FrustratedMonky 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Got it. Perhaps I read too much into your comment. Since I have seen a lot of people use the argument "old newspapers were biased, thus social media is ok".