{"id":22267,"date":"2023-10-14T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22267"},"modified":"2024-08-24T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T23:21:34","slug":"a-balanced-viewpoint-isnt-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/a-balanced-viewpoint-isnt-balanced\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;balanced&#8221; viewpoint isn&#8217;t best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask Alexa in a certain way if the 2020 American election was stolen, it will answer yes. Alexa is built by Amazon. Here are <strong>The Young Turks<\/strong> on this topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y7Q1_bOzV0g\">WATCH: Alexa, Was The 2020 Election Stolen?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They suspect that developers may have imagined that taking some news from the left and some from the right is somehow &#8220;balanced.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know anyone who has an Alexa, but 71 million people do.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, for the foreseeable future, if you want to look something up you should use a search engine and check the source yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Steve Shives on a similar topic but a different context. He points out that when you have a debate, it&#8217;s implicit that each side of the debate has a valid point of view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P-ESUo3ogSw\">Not Everything Should Be Up For Debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He uses the example of trans rights to show that some points of view should be shut down rather than coddled and compromised for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask Alexa in a certain way if the 2020 American election was stolen, it will answer yes. Alexa is built by Amazon. Here are The Young Turks on this topic: WATCH: Alexa, Was The 2020 Election Stolen? They suspect that developers may have imagined that taking some news from the left and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32,69],"class_list":["post-22267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-politics","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23482,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions\/23482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}