• @WoahWoah
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    712 months ago

    It’s just basic economics. The amount of power and influence you can generate with a disinformation troll farm dramatically outweighs the cost. It’s a high impact, low cost form of geopolitical influence. And it works incredibly well.

    • @rottingleaf
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      22 months ago

      It’s like saying that bullets and knives being more convenient than bricks for killing people are basic economics.

      Doesn’t explain why those brownshirt types have guns and knives and kill people on the streets, while you don’t have those, and the police doesn’t shoot them, and more than that, they’d arrest you were you to do something to brownshirts.

      What I wanted to take from this bad analogy is that the systems are designed for troll farms to work, and not vice versa. Social media are an instrument to impose governments’ will upon population. There are things almost all governments converge on, so the upsides of such existing outweigh the downsides.

      Our world is dangerous.

    • @[email protected]
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      -182 months ago

      You make it sound like everyone should be doing it. We could also save a lot of money invested into courts and prisons if we just executed suspects the state deemed guilty.

        • @WoahWoah
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          62 months ago

          The trace buster buster BUSTER!

        • @beebarfbadger
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          62 months ago

          These are called schools and universities and whatnot.

          • @Fedizen
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            02 months ago

            You mean the “radical liberal elite” that are “indoctrinating our children” and secretly control our country???

            • @beebarfbadger
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              12 months ago

              Potayto, potahto, all depends on which reality you choose to inhabit.

        • lad
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          12 months ago

          No, only the farm that convinces people to listen to other farm(s). And those already exist, anyway :(

      • @WoahWoah
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        2 months ago

        Everyone is doing it. What are you even talking about. You can’t unfuck the chicken.