And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.

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    10 months ago

    So exactly how the world worked before the internet except instead of getting your misinformation from aunt Becky you get disinformation from xXxFrenchmansCumsockxXx a12 year old in a foreign country… or a bot

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      10 months ago

      Here’s a couple of differences

      Millions of us communicate our ideas to millions every minute. (Think of that. 10E6^minute. Such a churn.)

      An idea can go anywhere in the world instantly.

      So there’s that vast amplification. A cannon vs a pistol.