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Uncomfortable take, maybe its a necessary PsyOp. In ancient times, when you screwed up the village would shun you and that status as a shunned, would act as a r
by qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
Uncomfortable take, maybe its a necessary PsyOp. In ancient times, when you screwed up the village would shun you and that status as a shunned, would act as a reminder for others to not engage in unacceptable behaviour.
This is what social media is now. If you engage in warcrimes, your face and name will be known to the world for all times.
- nonrandomstring 4y agoI'm suspect you're being a little optimistic. Although there is a small niche for socially positive influence campaigns the overwhelming function of "necessary psyops" has been for the powerful to make sure their "warcrimes" remain hidden from the world. Sadly, I think many of us are still carrying a working model of social media as a "peoples' tool" from the Arab Spring. There are plenty of places in the world today where you can see that's been suppressed, recruited and inverted by those in power. If we want technology to reduce evil in the world then we need to redouble our efforts.
- kdhfkhhhhh 4y agoYes, and after societies grew larger than villages, many of them started coming up with things like "courts" and "due process". Thankfully we're moving back to a more openly reputation-based system. I'm currently looking for a group of seven respected men that will swear oaths to my innocence if I'm accused of anything.