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Disinformation is a weapon used to crush dissent. Can antidisinformation policies also be used to crush dissent? Sure, any tool can be misused and weaponized.
by failrate 6y ago
Disinformation is a weapon used to crush dissent.
Can antidisinformation policies also be used to crush dissent? Sure, any tool can be misused and weaponized.
- corty 6y agoYes, anything can be weaponized. The question isn't if something can be used as a weapon, it is if that thing also has good and proper uses beside as a weapon. Antidisinformation is just a different word for counterpropaganda which is just propaganda used by us instead of them. Even the term 'propaganda' has been more positive 80 years ago, it just underwent the usual euphemism cycle, so now we are at '(counter)disinformation', 'fake news' and 'fact checking'. Which all is just a nice word play for the thing it all is: information warfare. (of course calling it 'warfare' is also propaganda)
- jrsj 6y agoThe idea that any such tool wasn’t designed primarily as a weapon first is disinformation in and of itself.