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Ever wondered what modern day propaganda would look like? This is the kind of stuff that will be in the history books in 2 decades time.

RansomStark 5y ago
>This is the kind of stuff that will be in the history books in 2 decades time. Do you think so? I don't, history is written by the winners, and all western governments play the propaganda game. Doesn't matter if it's the democrats or republicans, labour or Tories. No politician is going to call this out, the behavioural psychologists are in on it, and so are the media companies. Unless there is some major disruption in the next 2 decades, think revolution, invasion. You won't see a thing in the history books. Maybe we need to get ahead of the game. I propose we add a new http error code: 452: this history does not exist
- denton-scratch 5y ago
  > I propose we add a new http error code: 452: this history does not exist It's 451. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725
denton-scratch 5y ago
I actually thought it was really bad propaganda, and quite transparent. The arguments are incoherent, and they don't have any proposal. They say "we aren't against e2e, we just want big tech to deploy it in a way that is safe". Well, either you have e2e or you don't; it's not surprising they have no proposal.
- dogleash 5y ago
  >I actually thought it was really bad propaganda, and quite transparent. The arguments are incoherent, and they don't have any proposal. There's a saying that you only notice propaganda that doesn't work on you. That's not quite true, but roughly speaking, that's why you think this is so dumb. I could list off around a dozen other incoherent positions with no underlying policy proposals, if it wasn't for the fact they're actually quite popular right now and I know well enough to bite my tongue.
- deadbunny 5y ago
  99% of the population don't understand that distinction. Which is exactly why they're running this campaign. It'll connect e2ee with criminals in the populations minds.

RansomStark 5y ago

>This is the kind of stuff that will be in the history books in 2 decades time. Do you think so? I don't, history is written by the winners, and all western governments play the propaganda game. Doesn't matter if it's the democrats or republicans, labour or Tories. No politician is going to call this out, the behavioural psychologists are in on it, and so are the media companies. Unless there is some major disruption in the next 2 decades, think revolution, invasion. You won't see a thing in the history books. Maybe we need to get ahead of the game. I propose we add a new http error code: 452: this history does not exist

denton-scratch 5y ago
> I propose we add a new http error code: 452: this history does not exist It's 451. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725

denton-scratch 5y ago

I actually thought it was really bad propaganda, and quite transparent. The arguments are incoherent, and they don't have any proposal. They say "we aren't against e2e, we just want big tech to deploy it in a way that is safe". Well, either you have e2e or you don't; it's not surprising they have no proposal.

dogleash 5y ago
>I actually thought it was really bad propaganda, and quite transparent. The arguments are incoherent, and they don't have any proposal. There's a saying that you only notice propaganda that doesn't work on you. That's not quite true, but roughly speaking, that's why you think this is so dumb. I could list off around a dozen other incoherent positions with no underlying policy proposals, if it wasn't for the fact they're actually quite popular right now and I know well enough to bite my tongue.
deadbunny 5y ago
99% of the population don't understand that distinction. Which is exactly why they're running this campaign. It'll connect e2ee with criminals in the populations minds.