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This is the best thing to happen to human information processing since the printing press. The democratization of propaganda will mean that no longer will peopl
by scarejunba 7y ago
This is the best thing to happen to human information processing since the printing press. The democratization of propaganda will mean that no longer will people be slave to the voices that are loudest. Now, all ideas will fight equally.
No longer will Judith Miller be powerful and lead us into war because we will not trust her. Because when everyone is a liar, we will not choose one liar to trust.
- sytelus 7y agoThis is an interesting take. The equilibrium state is when all player use more or less same tech to flood their propaganda. This should lead to people eventually become more and more skeptic and lean on chain of trust instead of whatever random thing.
- dredmorbius 7y agoAmplification technologies tend to favour the empowered and invulnerable blessed with immunity or impunity. The power dynamic is not neutral.
- scarejunba 7y agoAh but it's not amplification, it's maximalization. Anonymous ubiquitous propaganda!
- lasagnaphil 7y agoThe problem is, who controls the medium? The Internet is not simply a free space that everyone can fight for their voice anymore, because the social networks, online spaces, and the people hosting the websites are slowly being more monitored and censored. For China, the censorship is performed by the government, and for the US, this is performed by the corporations and investors.