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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't know if you remember from back in the early days of reddit when CPP shills were around to try manipulating opinions. It didn't go well at first because reddit was too diverse or apathetic but eventually, a strategem took hold to shake up the service.

Isn't this place trying to be similar to old reddit before it went down the tubes? The question worth posing is: What threats are posed by unrestricted discussion based protocols on geopolitical and cultural topics? Well, for censor heavy government regimes- the potential and liability of truth leakage is infinite. It would undermine their propaganda based brainwashing through provisions of contrasting information. It would be a haven for people to "escape" and "normalize" once again.

Why wouldn't there be disruptive cells to interrupt this proper flow of uncensored information? Plus Cyber-China isn't even what it was from back in the day. It has mutated and evolved much further.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. Their clunky old methods have improved vastly because they've put a lot of effort in to refining them.

In fact every single place of discussion online that is too pointed or clear, ends up being disrupted by one or many groups, who don't want the discussion to be publicly happening.

Saidit has been DDOS'd dozens of times, and we've had lots of social attacks on the admins as well as attacks trying to destroy or disrupt the culture. Thankfully the pyramid of debate helps us keep things relatively organized, which helps combat these disruption attempts.

I actually made a video detailing this exact propaganda technique once if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18fu6eEVi4