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Re:UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown by abritinthebay on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:50PM (#14208040)
> As with the Brexit referendum, those that lost complained afterward that the public was mislead

And they weren't wrong. The problem unfortunately is that the public, as a whole, just doesn't care.

They'd rather a comfortable, self-affirming, lie than an uncomfortable, intellectually challenging, truth.

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Re:UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown by robhu on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:55AM (#14211950)
The fact of the matter is that both sides believed the other side was lying during the campaign (e.g. Osborne's punishment budget, Cameron saying he'd invoke article 50, and Project Fear in general).
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Re:UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown by abritinthebay on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:40PM (#14212857)
Maybe, but the Leave campaign provably lied (and was exposed as such even during the campaign.

Result: no-one cared. It was never about truth, it was about emotion

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