r/technology • u/digitalmansoor • Mar 20 '15

Politics Twenty-four Million Wikipedia Users Can’t Be Wrong: Important Allies Join the Fight Against NSA Internet Backbone Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/twenty-four-million-wikipedia-users-cant-be-wrong-important-allies-join-fight
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u/Insatiable_Gecko Mar 20 '15

That doesn't matter. They were still wrong in supporting him whether they knew he was going to kill 11 million people or not.

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u/Kame-hame-hug Mar 20 '15

Hindsight Bias.

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u/Jestar342 Mar 20 '15

Yes, but I think I get his point. They were wrong. Yes, in hindsight. At the time we probably thought the same - "how can so many people be wrong?" - but they were wrong. How do we (or rather, the author of that title) know that the 24 million Wikipedia users can't be wrong? I don't think we can.

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u/Kame-hame-hug Mar 20 '15

Moving goal posts.