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I can't be the only person who is just not bothered by this kind of thing at all, am I? I'm way more worried about political indoctrination in upper education

• 1337biz 9y ago
  Then you are running in the wrong circles where you can't just reject any oposing viewpoint as 'Russian bots'.
  • verylittlemeat 9y ago
    In the past month I've had 2 comments accuse me of being a Russian bot or a shill on hacker news. People really do just see what they want to see.
  • seany 9y ago
    I'm not quite sure I understand this comment. Can you expand?
• adamrezich 9y ago
  I'm the same, and I take it a step further: I personally believe that the push to associate emotional triggers with words, phrases, and news events to the point where seeing someone else "say the Wrong Thing" causes anything resembling emotional distress, is the most powerful weapon of social destruction in use today. The solution to "toxicity" on social media isn't better moderation, better filtering, better banned words and phrases lists... it's being able to see 280 characters on the screen, representing ideas you wholeheartedly disagree with, and not get worked up about it as your eyes move to the next thing on the list and you go about your life as usual. Sadly, the current structure of things incentivizes the former behavior and disincentivizes the latter. Corporations (especially news corporations) and politicians see no problem with conditioning people on a mass scale, and few people seem to question the narratives being spun all around them instead of just blindly believing whatever their social sphere agrees with.
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