Re:Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended ...
by coldtea on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:18AM
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>And is this not what happens traditionally as well? Politicians give different speeches to different audiences.
People seldom understand how changes in quantity/ease/volume translate to quantitative changes...
Politicians giving "different speeches to different audiences" (something that happens since time immemorial) and the technologically amplified ability for all the social and traditional online media one consumes to give them 24/7 targeted echo-bubble ads, news, and recommendations based on what audience group they belong to, is like the difference between eating a whole cake and filling a little stuffed, and gorging for a month on sweets upon sweets and dying from a heart attack...
People seldom understand how changes in quantity/ease/volume translate to quantitative changes...
Politicians giving "different speeches to different audiences" (something that happens since time immemorial) and the technologically amplified ability for all the social and traditional online media one consumes to give them 24/7 targeted echo-bubble ads, news, and recommendations based on what audience group they belong to, is like the difference between eating a whole cake and filling a little stuffed, and gorging for a month on sweets upon sweets and dying from a heart attack...