The idea that the Internet is a challenge to democracy is absurd. It's a catalyst. Democratic outcomes !== outcomes you like.
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@mmay3r - please read this prescient passage from a 2003 book on truth and trithfulnes:https://twitter.com/danielcallcut/status/973613158974873600 …
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Exactly. The Internet sure does catalyse democracy, but at the hefty price of utterly distorting it, because virality, not veracity, dictates the speed of data permeation. This is before we even get into Russia's well-documented weaponisation of the Net.
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