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# Wiki Turtorial 
Living in the age of the internet, we have all found ourselves living within a dystopian novel. At least Danah Boyd, author of the article Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation, argues it is comparable to one. The age of the internet also comes hand in hand with the age of ignorance, “a virus tearing at the social fabric of public life.” This, in turn, raises the question: is ignorance “strategically manufactured?” It feels it is so, as epistemology and agnotology control some spaces of the internet. Epistemology describes how we know what we know, and agnotology is a tool of oppression by the powerful. The article continues to describe how racism and terrorism live blantly on the internet through the use of epistemology, and agnotoly especially, explaining the terrorist in New Zealand who lived stream the murders of 50 people. 

The article ends with an explanation as to how and why it is up to the public to stay informed themselves and understand the dangerous “rabbit holes” that are some spaces of the internet. The dark spaces that talk about white supremacy and anti-feminism live and thrive on some spaces in the internet, fueled by different social media groups and filtering that recommends groups users would enjoy, being the means as to how users find these groups. For me, reading the article raised the question of how much is it the users responsibility? And how much is the platform’s responsibility to ban hate groups such as those mentioned in the article? It’s a thin line between what is considered free speech and posts that should be removed and taken down for being blatant hate speech. In my opinion, it should be a 50/50 responsibility between user and platform. Ignorance is not manufactured, it has always been around, it’s just being seen more and more because it’s becoming easier and easier to find it. 
