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Its height notwithstanding, it's a bar that worked before for liberal democracies.
by RandomLensman 3y ago
Its height notwithstanding, it's a bar that worked before for liberal democracies.
- m000 3y agoComing up next: "The police may beat us up bad because we marched at a protest, but at least we're not thrown to the dogs as Kim's uncle."
- RandomLensman 3y agoSo how would you have fought the propaganda/psy-ops side of the cold war? Why do you think your approach would have worked as well or better?
- m000 3y agoHow about informing/educating people by promoting instead of undermining real journalism? I aspire to be able to tell apart A from B for myself, and not being told what is what from a nanny state and controlled media. Can't the "free" and purportedly superior western media debunk whatever BS rt.com peddles? But then they would probably be inclined to also call-out the psy-ops and other shenaningans staged by our govenments and targeting us. Ooops!
- RandomLensman 3y agoIn most cases, you have no way of telling A and B apart unless you are directly involved or an expert. Debunking has limited effectiveness even in factual situations, beyond factual, not even sure what that would mean. There is, of course, also a numbers game, flipping the side of a few people is quite sufficient for a some things, so even being really good at countering adversarial propaganda will leave a lot of gaps. Reducing an attack surface might not always be a bad idea.