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Normalcy bias

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental

state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to

underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and

its possible effects. This often results in situations where

people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a

larger scale, the failure of the government to include the

populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is

made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster

never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in

the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs.

People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to

something they have not experienced before. People also tend

to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible,

seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

SOPA Debate: Wikipedia's Jimmy Sales in Discussion with Copyright Allian...

Uploaded by democracynow on Jan 19, 2012

democracynow.org - Congressional support for a pair of anti-piracy bills is weakening after Wednesday's historic online protest in which thousands of websites went dark for 24 hours. Hollywood film studios, music publishers and major broadcasters support the anti-piracy legislation, saying it aims to stop the piracy of copyrighted material over the internet on websites based outside the United States. "We're talking about sites that are operated and dedicated to piracy and that are really preventing individual creators across the country from having an economic livelihood from their creative pursuits," says Sandra Aistars, Executive Director of the Copyright Alliance, whose members include the Motion Picture Association of America, NBC Universal, Time Warner, Viacom, ASCAP and BMI. But critics say the bills could profoundly change the internet by stifling innovation and investment, hallmarks of the free, open internet. "Wikipedia can be defined as a search engine under these [bills]," says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Sales. "That would mean it would be illegal for Wikipedia to link to a site, even if we are explaining to the public what is going on here. That would become illegal. This is outrageous. It's not acceptable under the First Amendment."

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