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How else is it supposed to be managed? When a mere 12 sources of disinformation can generate a wide panic, we have a massive problem that needs a sledgehammer

• inglor_cz 5y ago
  I don't know. Taking sledgehammer on human communication does not seem efficient and side-effect-less to me. I grew up in late Communist Czechoslovakia. The party cracked down on unwanted information really hard. They had a 13,000 strong secret police with extensive powers to do that, and forty years of experience how to strangle dissent. Kids were schooled in the One and Only Correct Way of Thinking, up to and including university, where you had to clear several classes of Marxism-Leninism before being allowed to, say, build bridges. Things like Xerox machines were tightly controlled and subject to registration, to curtail spread of illegal leaflets. And yet rumors spreaded within days of anything happening and distrust against the government and whatever the government said to the public was absolutely rampant. If anything, at the end of the day they sledgehammered themselves.