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Your post was flagged within half an hour of being up. I think you got your answer. Do you need any more proof to where we are headed?

techsin101 6y ago
oh wow, just great!.. was it because i dared to criticized YC? hope I'll not get a visit!
- ryan-allen 6y ago
  I think the recent mass de-platforming is a knee-jerk reaction to the Capitol riots. There are so many problems that need solving 2021 and beyond in order to maintain and civil and fair society. I don't believe it's going to be the platforms to lead the charge, it's going to have to come from lawmakers. When you can't tell the difference between a right wing US citizen and a Russian intelligence operative on an anonymous internet forum, there is a big problem. When media is able to distribute blatant lies and get away with it (and when the media is so heavily concentrated) there is a problem. When a certain political demographic can silence individuals with no oversight, there is a problem. There are lots of problems and it's going to be hard to solve them, but we should try.
  - shripadk 6y ago
    > a Russian intelligence operative Imagine if there was no "Russian Intelligence Operative" and it was right wing Americans all along. I'm sure Putin will be mighty pleased that he is being given so much credit for having destabilized a Superpower by doing literally nothing. Can you imagine the ego boost he would be getting out of it? If there is a way to self-destruct Americans have for sure found a way to do it. Irrational fears about Russians meddling in elections while saying in the same breath that mail-in ballots cannot be subject to fraud. Do you see how disconnected both arguments are? On one hand you say a foreign adversary can easily influence your election but in the same breath you say domestic actors cannot influence elections. Either your elections are so weak that they can be manipulated or they can't. Can't have it both ways. And yet Americans believe both stories coming from the same party and accept that it must be true.
    - ryan-allen 6y ago
      I read this book [0] and was astounded. There absolutely are state sponsored propaganda operations internally and externally. [0] https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/academic-professional/politics-government/This-is-Not-Propaganda-Peter-Pomerantsev-9780571338634 https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/academic-professi...

techsin101 6y ago

oh wow, just great!.. was it because i dared to criticized YC? hope I'll not get a visit!

ryan-allen 6y ago
I think the recent mass de-platforming is a knee-jerk reaction to the Capitol riots. There are so many problems that need solving 2021 and beyond in order to maintain and civil and fair society. I don't believe it's going to be the platforms to lead the charge, it's going to have to come from lawmakers. When you can't tell the difference between a right wing US citizen and a Russian intelligence operative on an anonymous internet forum, there is a big problem. When media is able to distribute blatant lies and get away with it (and when the media is so heavily concentrated) there is a problem. When a certain political demographic can silence individuals with no oversight, there is a problem. There are lots of problems and it's going to be hard to solve them, but we should try.
- shripadk 6y ago
  > a Russian intelligence operative Imagine if there was no "Russian Intelligence Operative" and it was right wing Americans all along. I'm sure Putin will be mighty pleased that he is being given so much credit for having destabilized a Superpower by doing literally nothing. Can you imagine the ego boost he would be getting out of it? If there is a way to self-destruct Americans have for sure found a way to do it. Irrational fears about Russians meddling in elections while saying in the same breath that mail-in ballots cannot be subject to fraud. Do you see how disconnected both arguments are? On one hand you say a foreign adversary can easily influence your election but in the same breath you say domestic actors cannot influence elections. Either your elections are so weak that they can be manipulated or they can't. Can't have it both ways. And yet Americans believe both stories coming from the same party and accept that it must be true.
  - ryan-allen 6y ago
    I read this book [0] and was astounded. There absolutely are state sponsored propaganda operations internally and externally. [0] https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/academic-professional/politics-government/This-is-Not-Propaganda-Peter-Pomerantsev-9780571338634 https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/academic-professi...