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Western society and especially the US are wide open to manipulation, the unregulated nature of the internet + free speech are an amazing propaganda weapon for f
by kmos17 3y ago
Western society and especially the US are wide open to manipulation, the unregulated nature of the internet + free speech are an amazing propaganda weapon for foreign adversaries (it’s likely a significant portion of posters on this site are part of influence campaigns, and a certainty on the big social networks).
Not saying grievances in TX are not from real Texans, but like during BLM they are being played and manipulated for wider outside goals. Absolutely nothing good would come out of an attempt at secession or civil war, Americans do not have a realistic assessment of what horrors await if we go down that route.
- thegrim33 3y agoThere was a story on HN a couple of weeks ago where the article mentioned China actively having some number of millions of shills/bots/ai/etc which they use to carefully manipulate public opinion within the Chinese internet. Do people really not believe that some percentage of those resources, and resources from other countries as well, aren't being used to manipulate the population of rival countries via the internet as well? I firmly believe we're already actively deep in a cold war, where countries are trying to take down other countries, without firing a single shot, by using the internet (among other forums) to convince citizens in rival countries to believe in ideas and to act in ways that will in the end harm their country and society. Now we're seeing people, usually younger / more internet connected people, all of the sudden have radically different ideas and belief systems than all the generations that came before them. Quite suspicious isn't it?
- 082349872349872 3y ago> to convince citizens in rival countries Why should any such action be limited to rival countries?