Re:Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
by ashleyn on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:50AM
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Somewhere along the line, they realised that deploying a bunch of KGB-style bots on Facebook was a hell of a lot more effective at controlling people than simply banning it. When dissent results in a crushing flood of mean-spirited trolls, who needs censorship?
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Re:Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
by ihsw2 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:11AM
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You cannot remove ideas from the mind but you can flood it with so much misinformation that the ideas are basically destroyed.
Effectively, people will "block Facebook" from themselves through self-censorship or completely writing off Facebook as a "poisoned well."
Re:Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
by zipwitch on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:02AM
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Are you implying this would be a bad thing?
While I think the internet provides amazing and revolutionary communications options to the human race, Facebook is quite clearly not among them.
Re:Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
by jryle70 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:38AM
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Yes. It's the bad thing. Who is to decide whether FB is bad? If you want to fight disinformation on FB, then fight it. But discriminate against using FB is the not the way.
Re:Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
by ravitation on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:02PM
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Each individual would choose for themselves whether FB is bad... That's why he said self-censorship. Is there a better alternative when fighting disinformation isn't an option that an individual can (or would) realistically choose?