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Re:Why I can’t have conversations using Twitter (2014) by sitkack on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:08AM (#14776455)
Propaganda is asymmetric, it takes more energy to communicate and rebut with Truth than it does to fabricate lies. Truth requires precision, clarity and subtlety; lies are a dead-blow hammer.
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Re:Why I can’t have conversations using Twitter (2014) by pjc50 on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:35AM (#14776549)
Yes. But this isn't new and certainly isn't specific to Twitter.
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Re:Why I can’t have conversations using Twitter (2014) by sitkack on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:45AM (#14776582)
The channel capacity is full of false. So responding takes more than one tweet of true. The medium of twitter makes it hard to rebut anything but the most simple statements.
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Re:Why I can’t have conversations using Twitter (2014) by chiefalchemist on Saturday July 15, 2017 @12:02PM (#14777318)
Agreed. Twitter is only a clearer mirror of who we really are.
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Re:Why I can’t have conversations using Twitter (2014) by bsenftner on Saturday July 15, 2017 @02:00PM (#14777979)
No, "conversations" on twitter are a reflection of the platform's limited ability to convey the nuance and subtle nature of truth in contexts that matter.
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