To be fair there are a lot of Russian trolls.
True. I wasn’t suggesting they don’t exist. I’ve just seen lots of users respond to any contradiction or criticism by immediately accusing the other person of being a bot or troll or whatever. Like an international plot to suppress their ideas is the only possible explanation for disagreement.
Criticism is one thing and it can end with an interesting discussion, but that’s not what’s going on here.
What usually happens is that someone with extreme views on Russia (or China) “teaches you the truth” (that may include the denial of widely accepted historical facts) and “fuck you brainwashed slave of capitalism” if you disagree. Alternatives to the teaching are plain insult and mockery. I even found mods banning posts or users in some communities.
I had to block a long list of people, whole instances, and some communities before Lemmy could become acceptable.
Had to take a double-take here since you have just posted that from lemmy.ml
What’s wrong with that?
Tale as old as the Internet. Back when Slashdot was relevant, someone accused me of being a telecom industry plant because I said the IPv6 rollout was being fucked up. Apparently on the basis that ISPs were set to make buckets of money by charging for IPv4 addresses. When I mentioned the conversation to a netadmin friend of mine, he thought the idea was stupid as fuck. Because it is.
Over 20 years later, Google is just about to hit 50% IPv6 traffic. I don’t consider that a success.
Is it satire if it’s true? We’ve literally seen dozen of articles about the Russian government investing in exactly this kind of discourse.
You’re making the OP’s point for them, unless you also call people who agree with you Russian trolls.
I haven’t seen too much of this except with people acting like Russian trolls.
Bots! Everyone is bots!
There are Russian trolls, but there are also many who firmly believe in the Russian propaganda for whatever reason. Some of them are in politics too.
If you believe and repeat propaganda, you also spread propaganda.
a lot of propaganda is true… what makes it propaganda is using it to advance a goal.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much
Say the line, Bart
MUH RUBLES
Everyone in this comments section is a Russian bot
Pretty much.
I swear I can’t enter a comment section without the accusation 💅
