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And that's why we have clickbait. Letting people cherry pick exactly what they want is seriously going to hurt quality content. Subscriptions to a wide range of stuff like Netflix and Spotify are perfect. There's something in there for everyone's taste.


It depends on how you define 'the quality'. Letting people cherry pick exactly what they want is the only moral way to provide the news actually.


You don't understand the problem of clickbait. What people say and what they do are two different things, and you need to choose which to listen to.

This is one of the reasons clickbait was so prevalent on facebook a few years ago - people clicked on these so much that they were ranked very highly. But in user surveys, the same users claimed they hated clickbait and wished it wasn't there. So what do you do?


I think it depends on your particular morality.

Is it moral to allow people to only consume the things they believe they need, even if the things they believe they need are only that because they are addictive and potentially harmful?

If allowing cherry picking exactly what they want is the only moral way to provide the news, does that mean all prior forms of broadcast news publication were immoral (e.g. television & radio news broadcasts)?




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