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It's sad that only 63% use it Acess to information is life changing, if internet didn't appear I would probably be wondering how to make it till the next pay r

It's sad that only 63% use it Acess to information is life changing, if internet didn't appear I would probably be wondering how to make it till the next pay roll with no perspectives for life lol On the other hand amount of propaganda and stuff is scary too, so you gotta have strong internet(web) hygiene

chii 5y ago
the propaganda isn't any different from that of the newspapers from yester-decades, but just multiplied 100x.
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  “quantity has a quality of its own”
- tester756 5y ago
  I believe that other bad_actors had harder time when they wanted to put their stuff into the newspaper than into the web now
  - sharken 5y ago
    The other day there was a story about recurring booster shots presented as making scientific sense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29510823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29510823 It is not propaganda as such, but the comments highlight how such statements can be problematic. So it's definitely harder to know what you can trust on the internet.
- neilparikh 5y ago
  I think being able to target propaganda by audience makes it different. If your goal is to disseminate idea X, the way you convince a mid 20s progressive is going to be different from the way to convince a retired Republican. The internet allows you to target those 2 groups separately, and tailor your message to the audience. You don't even need to pay any gatekeepers; just join the right Facebook groups (whose membership will already be very helpfully divided by ideology, class etc. for you), and start posting. You could replicate it partially by putting different messages in different newspapers, but not with the granularity we have now.
kingcharles 5y ago
I just went 8 years without touching the Internet. You can live without it, but it makes arguments unbearable when you can't look up the real answer on Wikipedia.
- glouwbug 5y ago
  I went 2 years without it. I was happier without it

chii 5y ago

the propaganda isn't any different from that of the newspapers from yester-decades, but just multiplied 100x.

jazzyjackson 5y ago
“quantity has a quality of its own”
tester756 5y ago
I believe that other bad_actors had harder time when they wanted to put their stuff into the newspaper than into the web now
- sharken 5y ago
  The other day there was a story about recurring booster shots presented as making scientific sense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29510823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29510823 It is not propaganda as such, but the comments highlight how such statements can be problematic. So it's definitely harder to know what you can trust on the internet.
neilparikh 5y ago
I think being able to target propaganda by audience makes it different. If your goal is to disseminate idea X, the way you convince a mid 20s progressive is going to be different from the way to convince a retired Republican. The internet allows you to target those 2 groups separately, and tailor your message to the audience. You don't even need to pay any gatekeepers; just join the right Facebook groups (whose membership will already be very helpfully divided by ideology, class etc. for you), and start posting. You could replicate it partially by putting different messages in different newspapers, but not with the granularity we have now.

kingcharles 5y ago

I just went 8 years without touching the Internet. You can live without it, but it makes arguments unbearable when you can't look up the real answer on Wikipedia.

glouwbug 5y ago
I went 2 years without it. I was happier without it