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They said the same thing about the printing press.

• novaRom 6y ago
  Both KGB and Stazi did fully control their citizens. Today there's no any serious technical restriction to get compromising information on anyone or better to say on everyone from any county. So, almost total control - see Trump, Farage, LePan, AFD, etc.
  • voxic11 6y ago
    What does that have to do with social media?
    • novaRom 6y ago
      Are you serious? The report warns that social media “are now tilting dangerously toward illiberalism” as more governments and “unscrupulous partisan operatives” use social media for repressive purposes. These include not only malign propaganda campaigns at home and abroad, but also growing government use of social media for mass surveillance. “As a result of these trends,” Freedom House reports, “global internet freedom declined for the ninth consecutive year in 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/seanlawson/2019/11/07/evidence-mounts-of-social-medias-negative-impacts-for-democracy/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/seanlawson/2019/11/07/evidence-...
• apocalypstyx 6y ago
  And in a way it was true; it did aid in destroying the world as it was known. But we inhabit the world that emerged from those struggles, so the victors write the history (and print it). If a new political regime were to arise from or through, say, twitter and overthrow all prior established regimes, the rectitude of that technology would be just as reaffirmed through equivalent hagiography.