100%. Stupid, baseless, and evil. The idea is "you are too stupid to make decisions for yourself, and your political views are wrong anyway, so we must tell you what to think and we will decide for you which information is true or false."
You cannot get more totalitarian than this other than direct mind control, an elusive goal still being pursued by spooks everywhere. Move right into someone's psyche and take over. An entire nation populated by real Manchurian Candidates.
It is the inevitable reaction to the false promise of the Internet which, after all, was the result of Pentagon research and development.
100%. Stupid, baseless, and evil. The idea is "you are too stupid to make decisions for yourself, and your political views are wrong anyway, so we must tell you what to think and we will decide for you which information is true or false."
You cannot get more totalitarian than this other than direct mind control, an elusive goal still being pursued by spooks everywhere. Move right into someone's psyche and take over. An entire nation populated by real Manchurian Candidates.
It is the inevitable reaction to the false promise of the Internet which, after all, was the result of Pentagon research and development.