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Step 1.) Work in Silicon Valley Step 2.) Desire an advantage over your peers and competition Step 3.) Notice political hysteria and how it affects the behavio
by HeyWolfey 9y ago
Step 1.) Work in Silicon Valley
Step 2.) Desire an advantage over your peers and competition
Step 3.) Notice political hysteria and how it affects the behavior of your rivals.
Step 4.) Deepfake a rival's face into a Nazi rally and send it to his professional network.
Step 5.) Rinse and repeat for every rival you encounter. It's not like denying being a Nazi supporter or crying foul play ever assuages paranoid suspicion.
Congratulations, you can now destroy the career of any worker in Silicon Valley with impunity.
- salvar 9y agoThis sounds serious. How many people have been accused of being Nazi supporters in this way?
- HeyWolfey 9y agoNone as of yet. But if people want to keep going with flippant accusations of Nazism in everything they see, then I suspect using this technique to abuse the witch hunt will be the natural next step.
- salvar 9y agoDo you have any examples of people's "flippant accusations of Nazism in everything they see"?
- HeyWolfey 9y agoGoogle "trump is a nazi" and take your pick of any number of Overton window nudging. It's a steady drumbeat of contortions to make the consumer of these outlets see Nazis everywhere. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/news/amp/Trump-Hitler-Nazi-billboard-Chico-Rouse-Revolt-12256059.php https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/news/amp/Trump-H... https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/donald-trump-nazis-far-right-charlottesville https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/donald... http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/donald-trump-is-a-nazi-sympathizer/amp/ http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/donald-trump-is-a-nazi-s... http://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-nazis-stole-christmas-promote-white-nationalism-755991?amp=1 http://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-nazis-stole-christmas-prom...
- salvar 9y agoCan you point to an actual example? Telling people to go google something feels like a very wimpy way of dodging requests for citations. Like saying "Go read a book". Edit: Thanks for the edited links. I don't see how discussions about the actions and discourse of the president of the United States support your suggestion that fake Nazi-accusing videos will be used to destroy Silicon Valley careers though.
- PeterisP 9y agoWhere's the impunity? The described actions can and will be prosecuted as libel; USA libel laws are comparably quite generous to facilitate free speech, but what's describe above is not protected.
- HeyWolfey 9y agoParody is very much protected.
- PeterisP 9y agoSure, but the exact actions described above don't meet the criteria to be considered parody, that's quite straightforward libel. Intent matters a lot, and given the actions you described, any judge would infer malicious intent.
- HeyWolfey 9y agoU.S. libel laws are useless on foreigners deploying this on U.S. citizens.
- sctb 9y agoYou've been posting a lot of trollish, unsubstantive comments. Could you please take a look at the guidelines and start commenting civilly and substantively? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- HeyWolfey 9y agoThese rules are useless and I do not recognize them as valid. I will not comply.