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> Paul Crowley recently mentioned that we underrate the effect of the Russian IRA (Internet Research Agency) which works full-time on creating discord and anger

• 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago
  My 2 cents is, people should be online less. This is vague scattershot advice but it would at least help me
• sznio 1y ago
  for me, it's being online less, and being online on "public" spaces less. my internet usage is now limited to chatrooms with friends and other people that I can be certain that are real. I don't read comments, I don't browse forums. HN is the only site with pseudonymous posting that I follow. otherwise, I completely avoid content without a real identity attached
  • Sammi 1y ago
    This only applies the fix to you personally. It doesn't fix society at large. Getting people to eat a healthy diet is already hard enough. Getting people to voluntarily choose to consume a healthy media diet is clearly not going to happen. Enforcement is necessary. But are we willing to do it?
• Sammi 1y ago
  1. Don't allow foreign media 2. Don't allow foreign comments on local media The issue is the willingness to suffer to consequences of enforcing these rules. A society at war might be willing to, but a society at peace wants to prioritize personal freedom, which is very much at odds with the draconian rules necessary to enforce the rules above. I guess step one is for us to realize and accept that we are all at a media war with adversarial foreign powers. It's true.