Promotion: "activity that supports or provides active encouragement for the furtherance of a cause"
Simply discussing an idea, even giving undue weight, is not promotion.
Conflating the two is dangerous as it provides justification for censorship. The free exchange of ideas and information is the only way a democracy can survive.
If the idea is bad or wrong, it will be debated and ultimately defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
> If the idea is bad or wrong, it will be debated and ultimately defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
This implies the existence of a marketplace of ideas where people can freely trade thoughts.
It was not the case in the past (i.e. you go to jail or are excommunicated for dissent), and it is increasingly not the case in the modern world (i.e. the algorithm is telling you what they want you to hear).
You cannot have a free marketplace of ideas in a world where the forums these ideas are being discussed have an incentive of causing conflict and keeping you engaged.
This is not an attack on you or anything, I just think we should all be more aware that everything we hear today has an agenda hidden behind it, which is malicious more often than honest.
> If the idea is bad or wrong, it will be debated and ultimately defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
Sure, and I have a bridge to sell you.
The marketplace of ideas is a myth predicated on the willingness of participants to promote and evaluate their ideas honestly, and due to that honesty to stop promoting such ideas when they are shown to be wrong or inadequate. It requires participants to even be interested in how good their ideas are and be open to discussing them and changing views if these ideas are found wanting.
Observing real life, what we have is people flooding the zone with unmitigated faeces, either for profit or idealogical motives. They are uninterested in whether these ideas are true, good or even useful, whether there are 'better' ideas, and they often dominate through volume and repetition. Tribal cohesion ensures the spread of ideas as much or more than honest debate.
The marketplace of ideas is dead, if it ever really existed. A fairytale for children.
> If the idea is bad or wrong, it will be debated and ultimately defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
And saying "Rogan promoted quack doctor making nonscientific claims again and thus the idea spread" is necessary part of that process. Too many people think that "marketplace of ideas" means "I get to spread lies and other side can not say that I am a liar".
Simply discussing an idea, even giving undue weight, is not promotion.
Conflating the two is dangerous as it provides justification for censorship. The free exchange of ideas and information is the only way a democracy can survive.
If the idea is bad or wrong, it will be debated and ultimately defeated in the marketplace of ideas.