it's amazing the entitlement of these people. they literally think receiving free money from the ether is a human right.

"Not giving us free government money to figure out how to best censor you is censorship"

Misinformation research is vital to advancing our understanding of how citizens understand and process evidence and scientific information and put that understanding into action. It is an increasingly important area of research given our massive, ever-changing digital information environment.

"DEI research and research into censoring people is definitely the same as MRIs and Bluetooth"

All Americans who benefit from the outcomes of publicly funded science—GPS and touch screens on your phone, Google, the Internet, weather data on an app, MRI, kidney exchanges, CRISPR, 3D printing, tiny hearing aids, bluetooth, broadband, robotics at the high school, electric cars, suspension bridges, PCR tests, AlphaFold and other AI tools, Doppler radar, barcodes, reverse auctions, and far, far more—should be alarmed and taking action.

I swear, we can solve A lot of problems if EVERYONE received one punch to the face

As this sounds like someone who's biggest problem is no avocados for their toast..

I trained in the always underfunded Psych field, and it was well known even in your undergrad that your entire life is a cycle of "sell yourself to a company to do research for their money, use that money to fund the study you are passionate about."

These guys are so used to basically getting to live the good life of always doing their PhD on Feminist Breakdance Therapy they didn't realize how privileged they were.

It's interesting how sites like Ars Technica and Techdirt have gone from tech news to mainstream left-wing politics. I guess there's no money in tech news anymore and they need clickbait.