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by somenameforme 502 days ago
Because of scale. Fool one person and you're a conman, fool a million and you're a politician. But with software anybody can jump to arbitrarily high scales, limited only by money.
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I'd say if you control what information 1.411 billion people have access to you have scale on your side.

So it's not scale.