I would argue that they're the same, or at least that you can't have one without the other. In order to be powerful you have to be able to influence people.
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Kugelfisch wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:05 amImagine spending a billion US dollars to be a loser. Could've watched animu and be one for free.
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Which is much easier when it happens without them shouting at you from the TV. The people turn off CNN and Fox but Google has them by the balls and knows more about them and how to steer them than any other media could ever have hoped for. Why directly tell you what to think? That just builds resistance. Let them search on their own and arrive at their own conclusion - which the search results you want them to see, of course.Keith Chegwin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 4:05 amI would argue that they're the same, or at least that you can't have one without the other. In order to be powerful you have to be able to influence people.
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They're not doing anything the Soviets didn't used to do. Difference is that when Stalin was around the world was a lot bigger and means of communication so much more limited that, unless Stalin personally wronged you or someone close to you, you wouldn't even have an inkling of what the Communist Party were really up to.Kugelfisch wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 11:58 amWhich is much easier when it happens without them shouting at you from the TV. The people turn off CNN and Fox but Google has them by the balls and knows more about them and how to steer them than any other media could ever have hoped for. Why directly tell you what to think? That just builds resistance. Let them search on their own and arrive at their own conclusion - which the search results you want them to see, of course.
Now, means of communication are so vast and intricate that it's almost impossible to completely censor anybody. The evidence of that is that we know what Google is up to whereas if their censorship techniques were complete and fool-proof you'd never hear about it.
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And yet it doesn't matter a single bit. Speak up all you want. Good luck finding many places where that's even possible anymore. As you said, commie tactics. All it takes is them singling the loudest and most prominent talkers out and ruin their shit IRL. And the legislation plays along. In a world where wrongthink means prison, what does it matter if one or a dozen fuckers can speak up? They get tried and lynched by the court of public opinion first and if that's not enough it'll be the state doing a Stephen Yaxley-Lennon on them.Keith Chegwin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 9:58 pmNow, means of communication are so vast and intricate that it's almost impossible to completely censor anybody. The evidence of that is that we know what Google is up to whereas if their censorship techniques were complete and fool-proof you'd never hear about it.
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That's why anonymity is so important, and why they're low-key pushing to take it away.Kugelfisch wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 1:15 amAll it takes is them singling the loudest and most prominent talkers out and ruin their shit IRL.
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And they are successful at it.Keith Chegwin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 1:18 amThat's why anonymity is so important, and why they're low-key pushing to take it away.Kugelfisch wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 1:15 amAll it takes is them singling the loudest and most prominent talkers out and ruin their shit IRL.
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