Top U.S. intelligence officials say Russia, China and Iran are continuing to target voters in the U.S. with disinformation and propaganda related to the upcoming presidential election.
US has a neverending supply of communists, tankies, LGBT activists, weird religious cults and so on.
That’s called Freedom of Speech. Every country has these things it’s just that in some countries they face (legal or just plain authoritarian oppression style) retaliation for speaking out.
I’m an atheist and certainly not a Tankie but I respect the right of religious nuts and Tankies to proudly proclaim their foolishness. I do not respect the right of bots to do this though. Automations have no rights and should not be allowed to impersonate people in order to spread propaganda.
We need an international treaty where every country agrees to make it illegal for bots to operate online without declaring themselves as such (bots). Then at least we could still have useful bots and have an excuse to ban the fakes and punish those that utilize them to push propaganda (as hard as that may be).
I don’t mind them speaking openly and I don’t want to limit anybodies freedom of speech
The problem is that they’re very often fundamentally wrong, and fanatically attached to their beliefs. They react with aggression towards any opinion that challenges their dogma.
This is some sort of social phenomena - maybe a result of poor education? Maybe depression and anxiety. Who knows.
For example in russia you have a strong presence of so called turbo-patriots - nationalists who believe russian propaganda and support the war against the Ukraine.
But the reasons why they think this way are pretty clear - they’re product of propaganda, lies, and twisting the history in schools. The cult of the russia and it’s leader is strong in these people
That’s called Freedom of Speech. Every country has these things it’s just that in some countries they face (legal or just plain authoritarian oppression style) retaliation for speaking out.
I’m an atheist and certainly not a Tankie but I respect the right of religious nuts and Tankies to proudly proclaim their foolishness. I do not respect the right of bots to do this though. Automations have no rights and should not be allowed to impersonate people in order to spread propaganda.
We need an international treaty where every country agrees to make it illegal for bots to operate online without declaring themselves as such (bots). Then at least we could still have useful bots and have an excuse to ban the fakes and punish those that utilize them to push propaganda (as hard as that may be).
I don’t mind them speaking openly and I don’t want to limit anybodies freedom of speech
The problem is that they’re very often fundamentally wrong, and fanatically attached to their beliefs. They react with aggression towards any opinion that challenges their dogma.
This is some sort of social phenomena - maybe a result of poor education? Maybe depression and anxiety. Who knows.
For example in russia you have a strong presence of so called turbo-patriots - nationalists who believe russian propaganda and support the war against the Ukraine.
But the reasons why they think this way are pretty clear - they’re product of propaganda, lies, and twisting the history in schools. The cult of the russia and it’s leader is strong in these people