- Feb 22, 2017
- 106,877
- 36,641
- 2,290
so people can't influence people with the flow of information online?is what russia did illegal? hell it's not even tied to the Russian gov, just some dudes in russia trolling us. and look what it's done to us as a country.They could wait until Google overplays their hand in influencing elections and arrest a shit ton of them.
is what they do illegal?
now - if you build the ability to influence millions of people to a political agenda, isn't that a "monopoly" by nature? hell it used to be illegal to own more than what, 5 media outlets? now most are owned by maybe 5 corporations. they do in fact shut down alternative thought. youtube demonitizing things is a huge example of their influence on many making a living being an alternative resource.
so dunno about legal or not. but again, if they have a monopoly type power, that will be dealt with and if they can change an election by manipulating their own data, then to me that is a much bigger issue than some russians trolling us.
If they can influence millions of people to a political agenda, is the opinion of one psychologist who uses very questionable methodology to come to his conclusions.
i would disagree, quite a bit.
Of course they can. The question is not if it can happen, but whether it is happening.
As I think you pointed out above, the people that think that FB and Russia were able to influence the election scoff at this, and the people that buy into this scoff at FB and Russia swaying the election.