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You forgot the part where that “political content” was disguised as domestic opinion. Reducing the amount of astroturfing on the internet is a good thing.
by p49k 8y ago
You forgot the part where that “political content” was disguised as domestic opinion. Reducing the amount of astroturfing on the internet is a good thing.
- drb91 8y agoIs there any evidence it’s working? Seems to mostly piss people off. Anyway, most astroturfing is done by american companies and is more harmful. Will google stop them too? Highly doubtful.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Is there any evidence it’s working? Yes. > Seems to mostly piss people off. While some of it has other purposes, as well, destabilizing America by exacerbating and radicalizing existing internal political divisions is clearly a central purpose of the effort, so “seems to mostly piss people off” is actually a sign that it is working (especially when you consider the details of who is pissed off and what they direct that anger at.)
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- drb91 8y agoI hope google is not trying to destabilize america, which it sounds like you are arguing is a good thing.
- dragonwriter 8y agoI read “it” in the question as referring to the false-flag propaganda that Google is targeting, not Google's response. That reading does depend on trying to ascertain which of the two sentences in the precedinh comment was being referenced without an explicit indicator, and that certainly could be wrong.