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Distribution of propaganda by bots is at least sort-of democratic. I wish there was more analysis of the automated suppression of news by the various platforms
by siegecraft 9y ago
Distribution of propaganda by bots is at least sort-of democratic. I wish there was more analysis of the automated suppression of news by the various platforms (twitter, facebook et al).
- KirinDave 9y agoIt's not democratic at all. It's specifically the use of resources to impersonate votes.
- siegecraft 9y agoOk, not democratic in that each person doesn't have an equal voice, but democratic in that anyone could buy some twitter botnet time and get their own message out.
- KirinDave 9y agoIt's not traditional to raft the notion of democracy to "how much money you have to rent a resource." In practice, sure. That can happen. But we tend to universally awknowledge that it dilutes the intent of democracy, which is to keep a government honest to the people it governs. It seems like, given the astronomical differences in wealth between individuals in this world, this is precisely the kind of thing where one person can use resources to dilute the power of many individuals.
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