We can have democracy or we can have Facebook

Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by bondarchuk on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:07AM (#25384850)

>But perhaps you think lying to people on an industrial scale is ok?

Nobody seemed to have this much of a problem with propaganda back when the common man did not have access to it.

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Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by josephg on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:13AM (#25384891)

The common man?

Some of the problem is youtube promoting a 'common man' Alex Jones 15bn times because he drives youtube's advertising revenue. And some of the problem is russia running active disinformation campaigns and organising competing protesters to fight in the streets.

If this happened in the 70's, you bet people would have had a problem with it.

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Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by jpttsn on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:33AM (#25386205)

You bet this happened in the 70's.

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Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by gjulianm on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:15AM (#25384905)

Propaganda is bad, but I very much prefer easily identifiable propaganda that the absolute circus show we have now, mainly because the former is easier to counter.

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