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A $1.5M 'women-led' NFT project was run by dudes

26 points by legrande 5y ago

vmception 5y ago
>These guys are just cynically exploiting the Western, left-liberal agenda of protecting female rights and stuff like that >I believe these guys understand Western society pretty well, and that’s why they can manipulate us easily. I've gotten quotes on Telegram from various marketing teams (It is easy to build a network there if you launch any project or community in the crypto space), and one or two of them are legitimate, getting their catalogue of capabilities is fascinating: A campaign taking advantage of Western Leftist ideas? check A campaign taking advantage of Western Rightwing ideas? check Come on you've seen the headlines for all of that, its been a whole decade now we can stop feigning surprise, what you might not know is that the same groups are well versed in things like Political campaigns of almost every country. US, European countries, India, any party Campaigns for NGOs and more Probably the most hilarious thing out of all of this is that doing campaigns for crypto projects is the most lucrative and immediately profitable with unlimited upside, while being the most informal
- anon9001 5y ago
  I really think that most people, even those in tech, are blind to how easily the world can be manipulated as long as it's not a threat to corporate profits. If your propaganda campaign lines the pockets of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, then they are open for business. Also, if the company refuses the business by banning propaganda accounts or creating special rules for who can advertise, then they have entered the political arena. It's not very expensive to force a meme.
aeoleonn 5y ago
It's bound to happen. Those who are easily manipulated by propaganda are easily manipulated by other people.
Traster 5y ago
Using the blockchain we can create NFTs that guarantee the authenticity of tokens minted by your phoney Russian scam artists.
bob229 5y ago
In Edinburgh there is a rape crisis centre run by a man pretending to be a woman so nothing surprises me anymore
hknapp 5y ago
Unrelated, I appreciate how fast this page loaded.

26 points by legrande 5y ago

>These guys are just cynically exploiting the Western, left-liberal agenda of protecting female rights and stuff like that >I believe these guys understand Western society pretty well, and that’s why they can manipulate us easily. I've gotten quotes on Telegram from various marketing teams (It is easy to build a network there if you launch any project or community in the crypto space), and one or two of them are legitimate, getting their catalogue of capabilities is fascinating: A campaign taking advantage of Western Leftist ideas? check A campaign taking advantage of Western Rightwing ideas? check Come on you've seen the headlines for all of that, its been a whole decade now we can stop feigning surprise, what you might not know is that the same groups are well versed in things like Political campaigns of almost every country. US, European countries, India, any party Campaigns for NGOs and more Probably the most hilarious thing out of all of this is that doing campaigns for crypto projects is the most lucrative and immediately profitable with unlimited upside, while being the most informal

anon9001 5y ago
I really think that most people, even those in tech, are blind to how easily the world can be manipulated as long as it's not a threat to corporate profits. If your propaganda campaign lines the pockets of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, then they are open for business. Also, if the company refuses the business by banning propaganda accounts or creating special rules for who can advertise, then they have entered the political arena. It's not very expensive to force a meme.

aeoleonn 5y ago

It's bound to happen. Those who are easily manipulated by propaganda are easily manipulated by other people.

Traster 5y ago

Using the blockchain we can create NFTs that guarantee the authenticity of tokens minted by your phoney Russian scam artists.

bob229 5y ago

In Edinburgh there is a rape crisis centre run by a man pretending to be a woman so nothing surprises me anymore

hknapp 5y ago

Unrelated, I appreciate how fast this page loaded.