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Re:Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them by pjc50 on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:28PM (#13161054)
It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference between "cyberwarfare" and "a bunch of idiots on reddit".
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Re:Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them by geofft on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:35PM (#13161128)
I don't think the fact that they're on Reddit is particularly interesting. Consider that we did, already, have a big moral panic over Satanic ritual abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse

We already know that humans are susceptible to believing that people at the highest levels of power are participating in Satanic rituals and child abuse, despite a lack of sensible evidence. Funny that that's exactly what was insinuated about the Democrats.

We, as humanity, have got to get better at handling the cognitive biases of ourselves at scale.

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Re:Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them by redblacktree on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @09:02AM (#13166781)
Suggestions?
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