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I don’t see how that makes sense in practice in a globalised world with the internet. The information is going to come from everywhere, and given the way the US
by overgard 8y ago
I don’t see how that makes sense in practice in a globalised world with the internet. The information is going to come from everywhere, and given the way the US meddles, our elections are of interest to practically every country. OF COURSE they’re going to try to influence our elections. Even a brief glance at our own history shows us doing that to, uh, practically every other country. It’s only going to get more pronounced! I see no practical way of achieving what you want other than burying our heads in the sand.
- roguecoder 8y agoThe way the media handled Watergate was very different not because of the internet age of information, but because they weren’t trying to maintain their access to a vindictive, racist party that has abandoned all decorum and sent sitting Congressmen to “investigate” Facebook for not prioritizing Breitbart in its rankings. There was no real information in the leaks, no crimes and certainly nothing as criminal as their theft, but that wasn’t the narrative the media wanted and so that wasn’t the narrative we got. If anything, the internet is our only way out of this: we don’t have to buy their narrative. We could insist on legal conduct from political operatives. We can choose not to be manipulated.