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Regulating the Influencers

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  • B Online
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    Bernard
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    Another angle: Credentials can be over rated. The list of experts who are nothing short of whacko is extensive.

    The industrial revolution cheapened everything.

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    • B Bernard

      Another angle: Credentials can be over rated. The list of experts who are nothing short of whacko is extensive.

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      wtg
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      @Bernard Definitely. Just look at some of the people in the current administration....

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      • J jon-nyc

        Christopher Hitchens used to say “to whom would you give the power to decide what you’re not allowed to read?”

        As 89 said next door, I prefer upvote/downvote, community notes, or some way to crowd-source commentary rather than outright censorship.

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        @jon-nyc said:

        Christopher Hitchens used to say “to whom would you give the power to decide what you’re not allowed to read?”

        As 89 said next door, I prefer upvote/downvote, community notes, or some way to crowd-source commentary rather than outright censorship.

        Intead of "censorship", call it consequences. Takes on a whole 'nuther source of responsibility...

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          Daniel
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          A person can hold a credential and still be incompetent and/or corrupt.

          Also, people with credential x can and do disagree with each other.

          I'm not seeing any practical point.

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                I know someone who has become an influencer in the financial sector. Neither he nor his partner have zero credentials. The recommendations they make are legal, but very risky. I don’t really understand all the ins and outs but it amounts to leveraging everything you have to take loans and then investing that money. There is a name for it that I have forgotten. Again all legal. But their audience is folks like me - teachers and other middle class professionals who are doing fine but definitely are not wealthy. They charge people for their “course” and consultation fees. They are in the camp of “don’t let those financial advisors take your hard earned money - we can teach you how to do it yourselves”. I don’t know what that looks like if people start defaulting on those loans.

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                  The idea of "an influencer" is a really strange, foreign idea to me.

                  How would you even define it?

                  I'm showing my age.

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                    Influencers make videos like this, no?

                    Link to video

                    How does a person do something like this?/ rhetorical

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                    • D Daniel

                      The idea of "an influencer" is a really strange, foreign idea to me.

                      How would you even define it?

                      I'm showing my age.

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                      @Daniel said:

                      The idea of "an influencer" is a really strange, foreign idea to me.

                      How would you even define it?

                      I'm showing my age.

                      Remember ‘people who are famous for being famous’? It’s the social media version of that, but the fame is with a very specific sub-culture.

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