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I hate Trump more than Al Franken hates Lindsay Graham, but honestly the US would be stupid to not use the same tools currently being used against our electorate to weaken rivals. I wouldn't be upset up learn that Biden is doing the same
But a better solution would be regulation of social media and better public education
What exactly does that look like? Mandated photos of government-issued IDs, or better yet, smartcards/RSA RealID for verifying access?
Here are some of my thoughts on this very thing from the other day.
China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc control their populace very well by disallowing access by the majority to foreign unapproved websites. Western-run social media including YouTube is especially hard to access or filtered heavily. We're extremely vulnerable to a propaganda attack of massive proportions (more than is already happening now) which could cause militia groups to legitimately go to war with the US Gov, allowing the budding alliance of NK/RU/CN/IR/ to attack us while our resources are overloaded
Bless the datahoarders. May the petabytes be with you.
What does it look like?
Open source codebase (particularly for algorithms that rank and serve content), transparency of investors, more funding to identify misconduct and misinformation, actual financial consequences for failing to quickly remove disinformation and remove bad faith users
I'm not sure what the heck the rest of your post was on about, enjoy your bunker, I guess?
It's a meme circulating from somewhere. I heard the first 2/3rds of that quoted portion almost word for word from a building maintenance who was about as non technical as it comes while still being able to function in that job in 2024.
Would be curious where it's sourced from.
I'd be curious as well because I'm into geopolitics and tech and came to that conclusion on my own a few days ago.
Weird. Are you a Ham by chance? He mentioned he started doing that and was very excited to share that once the internet broke hams would still be up moving packets.
Only thing I can think of.
I'm not, but it's something I've read about in the past and I listened to most of the Art Bell tape vault and he was always talking about HAM. I do have an interest in systems of censorship and censorship resistance, and geopolitics, decentralized systems and network security, so I suppose it all kind of falls into place once you start thinking about it and understanding it based on what we've already seen happen in other countries. Twitter was the driving platform behind the Arab Spring protests, for example, and IMO it was also a large part of the reason Occupy WallSt was able to be so quickly divided and squashed. And for the last ~decade we've seen the listed countries firewalling their citizens from accessing free content, while they ramp up the authoritarianism. Russia made sure it had local competitors and ways to cut itself off before it started the 2016 campaign.
You can't regulate and legislate your way out of social media propaganda campaigns by foreign adversaries. Congress as a whole didn't even begin to really understand tech until post-COVID.
The rest of my post was a copy/paste from a message to a friend the other day. My point is that the risk of foreign propaganda campaigns do much more damage to societies with open & free Internet access. Good luck running propaganda laps around Vkontakte users the way Cambridge Analytica did in the US. Vkontakte is Russia's state owned Facebook clone. It's the difference between the abuse team at a company, and the intelligence arm of a country.
From the PoV of the intelligence community, open internet access is a serious threat to national security. But they can't openly just shut down free Internet access or they'd have a civil war on their hands (maybe literally). So they'll use justifications. Iran WMD's, not stopping pearl harbor from happening, Tunguskee experiments, our leaders are good at justifying their reasoning and it doesn't take a bunker baby to understand this.
meshtastic
Yes sir. Mesh networks are currently a hobbyist privilege but once networks start getting more censored they'll be a necessity, like privacy coins. We either obtain world peace, or things freedom of information keeps devolving into a dystopian future where meshnet communication systems are distributed locally and through the mail printed on paper.
People like to call me a conspiracy theorist but I've got a record better than a coin flip... Nobody made any jabs for a few years after the Snowden leaks so at least I have that going for me.
The best regulation would be to turn it all off and pretend it never happened
If you think you can sus out my voting preferences by my ability to foresee something that's fairly obvious when you stop and think about it, then you're about as useful as GenAI generating realistic hands.
That's what I'm talking about. How would you propose that's done, in a way that actually works from a security perspective? Photo IDs can be stolen (or generated). You can buy USA fullz and a photoshopped selfie+ID from some Russian hacker for cheap in bulk. A few thousand dollars for a few thousand "ID verified" accounts. Real-time cryptographic ID keys is the only way one could realistically ensure that type of system works without being easily gamed. If it happens that'll be the end of the Internet for me. Bring on Briar and shortwave radio.
Apologies, I mistook you for another user and it made my comment moot. I deleted my comment soon after making it because of that in hopes you wouldn't even see it, but I guess it doesn't work that way.