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[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

Right but what he does is exploit Cunningham's Law:

"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

He post nonsense or a lie and "offended" people will crawl out of the woodwork to correct him and simultaneously force correct facts into the spotlight. So what he's doing here (himself being the subject being inconsequential) is pointing out that massive censorship and lies are being put out and manipulated in the search results. Someone will get a bug up their butt and try to come up with some data on it, find out that, yes, google is manipulating search results in a "bad way" even if it isn't Trump.

Now that's not to say that he isn't dictatorial in his perception of what people can say. God knows he is. But this time he's using Cunningham's Law. He tweets, people scatter after it like a laser pointer for a cat (as the cliche now goes).

Which brings the conversation around to my original comment, just not as succinct.

[–] Kannibal [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

unfortunately there are a lot of people who will only remember the disinfo, and accept that as the truth.

[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

That's what news outlets count on nowadays. So if someone says that these places are not lying (since they issued a correction or retraction) they are technically correct. But way back, storytellers (bards, druids, etc) held a power over even kings because they would tell a story about said king and true or not, these were the stories which everyone heard. In other words, targeted propaganda.

[–] Kannibal [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

donald depends in this too,

all those interviews where he said things that embarrass him now.? He now says they were "doctored"