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If a group is allowed to have sufficient knowledge of an individual through pervasive surveillance, then they can weaponize that by shifting the individual's Ov
by politician 8y ago
If a group is allowed to have sufficient knowledge of an individual through pervasive surveillance, then they can weaponize that by shifting the individual's Overton window through micro-messaging.
An altered perspective is the objective of propaganda and targeted advertising and radicalization. Their methods and objectives are the same: make someone believe what we want them to believe without their awareness of the effort.
This activity is underhanded and deceptive. It's neither persuasion nor debate, intentionally so.
- tantalor 8y ago> individual's Overton window Overton window is by definition a property of a group, not an individual.
- politician 8y agoAgreed; hence the qualification. The Overton window is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse; restricting to an individual, it may be considered the range of ideas tolerated in one's private thoughts.