[Barrin92]

>Please, please let this concept enter the general public's mind.

Especially salient because the idea of censorship in the form of bookburning or restricting speech is still way too dominant (especially in American culture).

Information overflow and deflection through a sheer barrage of garbage and misinformation seems to be the new (and much more effective) MO.

[ss248]

>Information overflow and deflection through a sheer barrage of garbage and misinformation seems to be the new

Nothing new actually. The whole concept is pretty old.

Looks like after trying to follow "guidelines" from Orwell's "1984", we are just trying Huxley's "Brave New World".

[xster]

> Looks like after trying to follow "guidelines" from Orwell's "1984", we are just trying Huxley's "Brave New World".

This guy gets it. I absolutely agree that China needs the searing scrutiny of the world for the sake of its people and the world but China is also still in absolute infantile stages of propaganda sophistication. Straight up censorships and news suppressions are things the West did in WWI. Astroturfing is a step up but operating under the premise of a palatable freedom of information and political choice while being inundated with what to think without ever receiving 'literal fake news' is light-years ahead of China.

[pteredactyl]

Yea, I'd argue the whole goal of Western government operators is to create a well-oiled propaganda machine. Everything else is a negotiation.

[chiefalchemist]

Information overflow and deflection through a sheer barrage of garbage and misinformation seems to be the new (and much more effective) MO.

It's not just information overflow, but relevance and objective importance.

Given this lens, is CNN & Co any less deceptive than the Chinese gov.? Same means, just different ends. The Chinese gov seeks control, the MSM profits. (I'll pass on the MSM being a proxy for the US gov, to keep it simple.)

The end result is that minds are mmanipulated, and urgent issues and truths are hidden in a blur of overload and further burried under a pile of pointless horse shit.

[DmenshunlAnlsis]

Oh Dear!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8moePxHpvok

Information/Tragedy buffer overflow attacks basically.