Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit...
by anigbrowl on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:24PM
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The strength of a democracy should be that its citizens can stand in the battleground of ideas unscathed and our abandonment of that ideal does not bode well.
Then you need to have some sort of standards for how that is conducted or how truth is established. If people are fed a constant barrage of lies of lise then some portion of them will believe in those, and history furnishes us with numerous examples of foolish collective behavior when a sufficient portion of the population becomes enamoured of a bad idea.
A friend of mine observed last year that it's easier to weaponize fiction than to monetize truth in a market economy, because the truth includes things that many people don't want to hear.
Then you need to have some sort of standards for how that is conducted or how truth is established. If people are fed a constant barrage of lies of lise then some portion of them will believe in those, and history furnishes us with numerous examples of foolish collective behavior when a sufficient portion of the population becomes enamoured of a bad idea.
A friend of mine observed last year that it's easier to weaponize fiction than to monetize truth in a market economy, because the truth includes things that many people don't want to hear.