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Manifesto-validation is a difficult task. Somebody could automate the generation of manifestos, and leak hundreds claiming responsibility after every shooting,
by cwkoss 7y ago
Manifesto-validation is a difficult task.
Somebody could automate the generation of manifestos, and leak hundreds claiming responsibility after every shooting, arguing for a variety of different positions. Then the public would have less certainly about what shooter's political intent actually was - which could lead to less politically-motivated mass shootings?
I wonder if someone has ever successfully tricked the public into believing a manufactured manifesto was written by a perpetrator, when it was actually written by someone unrelated to the incident.
- bmiller2 7y agoIn Neal Stephenson’s new novel Fall or Dodge in Hell (spoiler alert), social media becomes all powerful. A tool is created to bombard so much artificially created negative content about a person being cyber bullied, that the effect is to drown out all real condemnation, thus removing the social media collective’s power over that person. Sounds like an effective mechanism to potentially remove mass murderer’s ability to effectively communicate their reasons or beliefs. Since effective gun control in the US is impossible, it’s going to be out of the box ideas like this that might end up actually helping (besides god forbid some real focus on mental health in this country).