deterrence of the information bomb

[Clinamenic]

you might need credit stan, its sometimes necessary for housing. craigslist and a well worded email have never failed me but Im a smooth operator with an ear to the streets

And a finger on the pulse.

 

[version]

You been reading a lot of Virilio recently? @linebaugh

 

[linebaugh]

You been reading a lot of Virilio recently? @linebaugh

I read pure war around the time I posted this thread. Havent read anything else by him but I liked pure war.

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[version]

The 'disinformation' panic prompted by Trump and COVID feels like part of this. You can see people bouncing off it in various ways and there are social and professional costs to being seen as spreading said disinformation.

It's not the totalitarian solution Stan assumed - top down to an extent, but, once set in motion, self-reinforcing via the public - but it seems reasonably effective as a deterrent.

That being said, there've always been incentives to control information and the opinions of the masses, so I dunno how new or unique any of this is beyond the speed and scale of modern communications.

 

[Leo]

Social media is a multiplier, it spreads so much faster now and then lazy journalists reinforce it in press coverage