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Garry Kasparov - along with many others, of course - has attributed this “drifting into the ether” to a shift in how authoritarian leadership maintains complian
by germinalphrase 7y ago
Garry Kasparov - along with many others, of course - has attributed this “drifting into the ether” to a shift in how authoritarian leadership maintains compliance. Where old school authoritarian organizations would attempt to actively stifle the flow of truth (aka the Great Firewall), today they seek to obscure the truth with a firehose of partial truths/could be truths/outright lies such that the average person is unable to accurately discern what is fundamentally true about any given situation. The tool of oppression is fake news, norms erosion, and maximizing confusion.
- FeepingCreature 7y agoHow is that differentiable from a world in which a large amount of partial/incomplete information is produced naturally?
- germinalphrase 7y agoScale and intentionality. Kasparov has talked about reading an interview he “gave” to a supposedly anti-Putin newspaper in which his political positions are acknowledged, but subtle changes are made that weaken his arguments and discredit him personally. The ability to create entire media organizations, websites, troll farms, etc. with the explicit intention of sowing confusion and kneecapping the ability of the populations to discern what is actually happening in the world around them is only a tool available - at scale - to a certain class of people.
- inimino 7y agoThe bias of the partial information matters.
- asdff 7y agoWhen supposed figures of authority like the POTUS are contributing to the junk for their own benefit
- FeepingCreature 7y agoI feel like that would happen regardless.