Mass flooding of traditional media with hack tidbits—most of which reported poorly, without context—just kicks up dust; drowns politics.
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Mass hacks—no curation, full of private info & juicy but irrelevant tidbits—are the opposite of what you need for investigative journalism.
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Instead, we have a press corps unable to take their eyes off the bright candy that fell from the piñata plus a lot of social media noise.
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It's no longer age of information scarcity. Censorship works by info glut, distraction, confusion and stealing political focus & attention.
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Wikileaks tweeted out (named) staffer's suicide attempt from hack & CNN discussed it on-air. How are people shrugging this level of damage?
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This is a version of why women don't came forward. If you want to change that, you need to change the whole ecology of treatment afterwards.
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Targeted hacking of political campaigns isn't FOIA. As soon as an dissident group amounts to anything, it will be destroyed via this method.
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There's a chance to not normalize this—by treating it like the danger to the ecology of news & politics it is while it affects the powerful.
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Instead, few seem to be able to take their eyes of the candy falling from the piñata, to see the buzzsaw coming this way. ::sigh::
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literal image in my mind; i am not good with metaphors but images sometimes pop up.
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