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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by doubt_me on Saturday March 17, 2018 @03:34PM (#16608640)
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Isaac Asimov, Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980)

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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by mistermann on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:09PM (#16609536)
True enough, but I believe what's different now is that there is significant it has taken serious root in the "informed" class as well, HN being no exception.
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