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curl-6 said:
Pemalite said:

The harm is that facts will often be swamped by rumors, opinions or speculation.
It also hypes up peoples expectations... And when those expectations aren't met? People are let down.
We need Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft to be the best they can be for competitive reasons that benefit us, the consumer.

We live in an era where misinformation rules supreme and the onus is on us to put an end to it.

If people want to get hyped up that's their choice, they can decide for themselves whether they want to risk being let down.

We can't rule this out as misinformation at this point because it could be true.

This kind of reasoning is literally why there are people who believe that it takes 7 years for gum to digest or that cold weather itself makes you sick.
It's also why there are people who believe the Earth is flat.

Because they are "allowed to decide for themselves" without being challenged or questioned... They are essentially allowed to exist in an echo-chamber, reverberating the same garbage to reinforce their already established confirmation biases with other like-minded individuals.

If we cannot rule it out as misinformation, then the claim should be dumped in the bin... Until such a time there is evidence to support it. And not the reverse.
It's called the "Burden of proof" which is more important than ever.

And no. I won't stop challenging these "leakers" who are just speculators/propagators of rumor... Because people are stupid, because people actually 100% believe it, rather than think of it as a mere "possibility" that should be taken with a grain of salt... And if this thread is any example of that, there are people who are taking these rumors as real, rather than with skepticism... And that is truly disheartening in the information age.




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