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The most effective way to prevent people from looking into something is to poison the well. Attach the thing to something else obviously false, bonus points if
by jakeogh 7y ago
The most effective way to prevent people from looking into something is to poison the well. Attach the thing to something else obviously false, bonus points if evokes a negative emotional response.
Example; if someone decides to research 911, and instead of seeking out published papers and original sources, they go on yt and start watching videos about it, they will in short order hear a number of false things; holograms, lasers, nuclear weapons, missles, etc. Stuff that the average person would instinctively know is false.
The goal is not to convince the person that any of those examples is true. It's to associate them with other information and to game confirmation bias.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/pretext.mov http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/prete... (win users might need videolan.org)
- zulln 7y ago3.5 GB takes a long time on the current connection. What am I downloading?
- jakeogh 7y agoA 38min documentary. Sorry about the size, I promise it's not borring. If someone gives me an approprate ffmpeg command I'll transcode it. Preserving the source footage quality was important.
- jmalicki 7y agoYou could perhaps give the title, names of the creators, links to reviews, etc.? As opposed to "trust me, as some random dude on the internet, that you should download this, potentially risk prosecution for pirating, and waste 38m of your time"?
- nothanksmydude 7y agoIt's in a public folder so there's no need to scare monger with the whole 'prosecution for pirating' bit. Why not just watch it for yourself instead of making things up to attack him?
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoYou could write a one-paragraph description in five minutes. You're one person. You've got maybe 1000 readers, and you're asking them to each spend 38 minutes on faith that your recommendation is good, with no other information given - just a link. Asking you (not you, nothanksmydude, but jakeogh, who posted the no-info-given link) to spend five minutes, rather than asking us to spend 38 x 1000 minutes... that seems like a pretty reasonable request.
- pjc50 7y agoI'm not going to watch 38 minutes of video. Say what you have to say in a paragraph.
- jasonvorhe 7y agoThe video is a 2008 9/11 truth conspiracy theory video from a guy called Justin Keogh. Imho it's neither worth the download nor the time.
- jakeogh 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003606