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> Yes, there is a certain degree of hypocrisy in commentators lauding the sophistication of the Obama campaign machine and then complaining about the Republican
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> Yes, there is a certain degree of hypocrisy in commentators lauding the sophistication of the Obama campaign machine and then complaining about the Republican strategy.
The complaints are generally with respect to a targeted effort to direct people towards sites publishing outright false information[0] as propaganda, and doing so by coordinating with a foreign government.
There is no such claim about the Obama campaign machine - certainly that's not what people laud when they talk about it.
[0] Not misleading or biased, but completely false - as false as the headline "Humans Land On Mars", or "Moon Landing Revealed to be Hoax" would be.
- jimmytidey 9y agoIf you want a non-partisan debate, which I do, I think you have to look past this kind of 'who was worse' debate. Even if there is an answer to 'who was worse', trying to reach a conclusion will just descend into meaningless point scoring. So, rather than saying that there is or isn't hypocrisy, I guess it would have been better for me to say that I don't care.
- chimeracoder 9y ago> If you want a non-partisan debate, which I do, I think you have to look past this kind of 'who was worse' debate. You can have a "non-partisan" debate while recognizing that there's an important distinction between applying data to disseminate information in good faith to potential voters and applying data to intentionally disseminate misinformation in concert with a foreign government.
- tatersolid 9y agoYour typical Democrat enthusiast considers the entire Republican platform “disininformation”. And vice versa. That’s truly the root of the problem here: none of the “fanatics” who control the various political organizations on left or the right actually want informed debate. They want to censor the other side entirely.