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points by raddan 1 day ago | 0 comments

Sure, but what do you propose governments do to stop it?

Pivot to domestic alternatives and encourage them to root out bot accounts and foreign influence campaigns.

That sounds a lot like "censor foreign media and domestic anti-regime media". I'm of the opinion that if foreigners can convince me and my countrymen of something just by posting, we probably didn't really need the convincing anyway. Even if it turns out my position on something was changed 180 degrees by foreign posters (even Chinese intelligence employing cutting edge propaganda AI, or whatever bogeyman you want to employ), then: Fine. Whatever. Persuasion of citizens in a democracy is just how a free society works.

[–] morkalork 1 day ago

How do you feel about the FCC. Should it be abolished? Otherwise, why should social media broadcasting be exceptional vs over the airwaves?

[–] ElevenLathe 1 day ago

Spectrum is finite and must be shared. In the absence of a functioning world government, it makes sense to treat it as a national resource. And no, I don't think the FCC should be in the business of policing the content of what is broadcast on the public's spectrum, only that it is done in an orderly way.

[–] red-iron-pine 1 day ago

regulate the shit out of social media.

they know. Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter -- it's not hard to figure out who and how this is happening.

it's like how Twitter goofed and made accounts show the country they were posting from. Turns out most of the Real American Patriot influencers were posting from India. Twitter immediately freaked out and ended that visibility.

They know. They're the problem.