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All I can think of is two countries paying mountains of money to write lies about each other on the internet, and whomever has the most people/bots wins.
by post_break 5y ago
All I can think of is two countries paying mountains of money to write lies about each other on the internet, and whomever has the most people/bots wins.
- ethbr0 5y agoOpen networks -> first worm Open browsers -> first web malware Open infospheres -> first organized disinformation campaigns Our digital history has essentially been a recurring chapter of why humans can't have nice things.
- HenryKissinger 5y agoOpen networks -> first ransomware too.
- FredPret 5y agoMaybe, but the things keep getting nicer, and have been getting nicer faster over time
- systemvoltage 5y ago"We can't have nice things" has been around for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_game_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_game_theory
- omegalulw 5y agoThis is a defeatist argument. Humans evolved -> first human problems There will always be people who don't play nice. Doesn't mean we can't have nice things, just that it takes extra effort.
- ethbr0 5y agoIt does mean there are some nice things we cannot have. Anonymity. Freedom. Access to weapons of mass destruction. Access to precursors of weapons of mass destruction. Access to bulk amounts of precursors that can be used to synthesize controlled substances. If everyone played nice, we could have the absolute form of all of these things. In reality, we can't.
- mhh__ 5y agoReplace bots with people, and that's basically the Cold War in a nutshell from an espionage perspective. The soviets were very good at it.
- pphysch 5y agoYeah, but NATO was better, and they "won" because of it. Most people in the West are still completely unaware of the close operational ties between huge "trusted" media firms like BBC, Reuters, literal NATO propaganda outlets like VoA and RFE/RL, and NATO intelligence agencies. In this respect, the Cold War never ended.