There was no reason why the opposition to that candidate couldn't have put up their own absurd lies, or, dare I say, disproved the far right candidate's lies, thereby achieving the same success via the same platform. The elections are all about effective campaigning. You can't blame the platform because the candidate you don't like is too effective at using it. Instead learn from your mistakes and use this platform to be just as effective.
Then they spend all the time refuting absurd lies instead of explaining their proposals.
Tech is just the easy scapegoat for society.
One of the blocked accounts were of the son of the candidate.
- limit the amount of persons in a group
- limit the amount of people you can forward a message
- Restrict broadcasts
I always thought that the Internet would be a democratic platform that would improve the debate in society. Maybe we would go back to a democracy without intermediaries.
I was wrong.
We are entering a dystopian world where the profits of a handful of companies are more important than the rest of society.