• Buttons@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    I get you, but asking people to participate in democracy is not “weaponization”, and I’m 100% okay with popular figures, even from other countries, telling people how to vote, because who doesn’t tell people how to vote these days?

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      Using a weapon can be done for good. If they’re using it to attack something for their interest, it’s weaponization. However, they didn’t do it for “good.” They did it for self-interest. US representatives got bombarded with phone calls and messages telling them not to block a foreign company’s app after the company told them to do so. What would that look like to them? It looks like a weapon that has been turned on them.

      We shouldn’t just accept foreign agents interfering with our election just because “who doesn’t these days.” That is totally the wrong response. If that’s all you see in this you need to re-evaluate your position.

    • Lobreeze@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      You’re OK with paid actors interfering in your elections?

      Jesus fucking christ.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        That’s pretty much par for the course. We saw the same thing with big tech companies around Net Neutrality, this is largely the same thing, no?