Doesn’t Tim use that?

yeah

Beatrice's Law of Headlines or something its called

Betteridge*

I realize the more laws we make, the more they backfire, but

Clickbait headlines are a scourge.

They need to fuck off.

nah, laws aren't meant to be bad

But stupid people MAKING laws make bad laws

God, yes those "you'll be astonished by" and "and why that's a good thing" headlines immediately make me want to disagree, and I never get to find out if I actually disagree because I refuse to give them my click

And you'll never believe what happened next.

You'll never believe a clickbait headline again!

Click here to find out why

@Dr.Wol What I was saying was.. Clickbait is such a HAZARD, I could see the argument for outlawing them.

I bet I can: You got halfway through the article and a video started autoplaying and following your scroll and it's not even related to the article

But then I'd also realize "Wow enforcement would be a fucking disaster."

clickbait isn't a hazard,

People should just know better

People are busy.

I'm wise to all the shit now because I've spent so much time in the atmosphere.

if you wanna outlaw the construction of sentences, you need to re-examine your priorities 😦

exactly,

People should learn to avoid it

and if they don't, thats just natural selection

They should, but they don't/won't/can't.

Its like these trigger warnings etc

Well, how is it natural selection..?

When their ignorance gets to thrive?

It's not like those of us wise to this nonsense are the ones awarded with riches and babies.

When you coddle them by keeping away false headlines

people won't know it when it happens again

and they'll believe it

Most of these sites seem to be dying and this level of clickbait is just their death knell as they spiral further down into irrelevancy

better to let them know false headlines exist so they can make up their minds

Hopefully something better can rise from the ashes

Its like trigger warnings,

If you block "clickbait" by law,

Soon you'll have people screetching in a fetal position because of some headline that got through

"You made a No-no headline! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Yeah, I'm not comfortable with any sanctions being placed by the government on what the media is allowed to report.

Sounds too succeptible to corruption, or just poorly thought out legislature

There have to be ashes first.

We need more Hulk Hogan cases.

Seeing gawker's properties being passed around like a hot potato while everyone sees their brand recognition but fails to monetize it is the purest of schadenfreud

Heres the issue

If people believe in lies, they become ignorant of the subject and will only be manipulated with what they believe
If you censor the world, they become ignorant of the world, and can have their beliefs manipulated

either way, you'll have stupid people

Suppose we just hang the former head of gawker from a streetlight.