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RE: Is Steemit becoming a haven for conspiracy theorists?
I am afraid of what happened on twitter http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-found-more-russian-bots-trump-interacted-with-many-2018-1 with more than 50,000 bots spreading disinformation run by a government. Is there a system in place on steemit that would detect this sort of rebroadcasting?
But Steemit is different than Twitter.
One one thing that would slow them down is that it takes a lot of time to build up enough Steem to actually post lots of comments or posts.
People are more active here and I think they would find a way to counter the bots.
I'm not sure I agree. I think the risk of censorship far outweighs the risk posed by these... 'people'. Hell, I might even go so far as to say the purpose of this censorship isn't to crack down on them, it's to crack down on US.
That's going to be the effect either way. I recommend checking out Jimmy Dore or Kyle Kalinsky's videos on this phenomenon. A queer tendency is these measures tend to end up targeting the far left (RE: anyone left of Hitler) more than their intended targets...
Oh wait a second... I made a mistake here... You're concerned about the bots, not twitter??!
No. Nonononono. Dude. No. That's fake news.
There's been a concentrated siege on new media by the oligarchs to put up barriers in new media to prevent people from seeing the obvious.
"50,000 bots spreading disinformation run by a government."
Simply put:
Don't worry about this, it's literally 'fake news' as the right says. Hillary and Peter Douche are behind these measures, that should say enough.
I cannot stress enough how this is not a problem, and the 'solution' is literally worse than the problem could ever be, I beg you to reconsider.