At 03:45 PM 18/04/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >If I read something on Reddit or Hacker News I don't know its ownership >so I greatly decrease its credibility and trust. I'm more inclined to >check sources for these reports than for newspaper reports. > >Linking this subject to another thread... I trust our currency (owned by >the Australian government) much more than I would trust Bitcoin (owned >by whom? with what credibility?).
I don't disagree with any of the above. Trust is relative, and even if I may trust a person on one domain, I won't necessarily trust in all domains. And I certainly don't trust mainstream media just because a story has been supposedly vetted by an editor because there are too many vested interests involved and too many barrows being pushed for unexposed reasons or even outright denied reasons that are also untrue denials. I don't need to name names because we all pretty much know which segment of the press I mean. Unfortunately, not everyone in the public believes there is this level of untrustworthiness of the MSM (too many talk radio shock jocks who play into the dark side of human nature), so the chance of developing a critical aspect toward it is uncertain, therefore a societal risk. Trusting bitcoin was just stupid. Although I did hear a guy call in to ABC radio (yeah, I do listen to it, too, but at least I stick with the ABC) yesterday reporting that he speculated on Bitcoin before the crash and made enough to fund his engineering degree. Ethical? dunno. His question was about how he dealt with the resulting tax, if any! Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] blog: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/ business: http://www.janwhitaker.com Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. ~Madeline L'Engle, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
