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>Unfortunately these days we're forced to consider the possibility that even your post is part of a professional manipulation campaign. Or mine. Or every other
by zeth___ 9y ago
>Unfortunately these days we're forced to consider the possibility that even your post is part of a professional manipulation campaign. Or mine. Or every other post out here.
The only way to beat this is to have an end goal that is objectively good regardless of who says it.
Bringing the first amendment into the 21st century and forcing corporations with open access discussion systems to be treated like government entities is a win for everyone.
After all the first amendment in it's original form only stopped the federal government from imprisoning you before you said something, not after, and had nothing at all to say about what states governments could or couldn't do.
- bilbo0s 9y agoThe First Amendment doesn't beat professional manipulation campaigns, it facilitates them. I've realized recently that the goood thing about the First Amendment is that it leads to an electorate that is as jaded as myself. One that views every Facebook, or HN, or internet post as potentially part of a state sponsored manipulation campaign.
- nugi 9y agoSo the 1st is bad because it makes you have to think?