Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up
by ms22 on Monday October 30, 2017 @01:31AM
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> just in their favor
It's a fools game. When everyone does it, and everyone is doing it, no one wins. One day Obama thinks he has mastered the hack. Another day Trump does. End of the day, there are no great outcomes. Just herds of "hacked minds" stampeding and crashing into one another.
What we will get, if this keeps on is more Vegas type shootouts as more people loose their minds.
Probably the nightmare authoritarian governments had to deal with, at the advent of the internet brought them to that same conclusion.
And since they realized that, from their perspective, the "information" they were receiving was suspect, all they needed to do was just seed information that was also suspect - just in their favor.
(thats a confusing sentence - from the perspective of a Machiavelli, the naive belief that information is freedom is broken down into a more fine tuned model of information, delivery, reception, uptake and understanding. Their realization is that you can use the internet to hack people, instead of having the internet just hack their regime)