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Well, the first implication is that online politics becomes even more of an astroturfed disaster area than it already is. Quite possibly democracy as a concept
by pjc50 9mo ago
Well, the first implication is that online politics becomes even more of an astroturfed disaster area than it already is. Quite possibly democracy as a concept splits into two halves:
- "control plane", a media ecosystem where everything could be fake
- "ground plane", in-person gatherings and demonstrations, which are much harder to fake but have extremely limited access to information and are easily suppressed
- somenameforme 9mo agoI don't see why you'd take it to such an extreme. All it would mean is that chatter on medium to large open media is largely fake. Not necessarily a bad thing since a significant minority of it already is, but many people don't realize. But you'd still have endless personal networks, friends from real life, and so on. I think the general outcome is simply a devaluing of open online chatter as a whole, which I definitely don't see as a bad thing.