Thursday, June 6, 2019

Disputation and Disinformation -- David Brin

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2019/06/disputation-and-disinformation.html  

Read David's entire blog post and click through the links.


Kialo looks quite interesting for a variety of purposes.

And this snippet was inevitable and is amazing:

At the opposite extreme… "Substitute arguing services" offered in China
A number of online services in China offer professional arguers who will verbally or electronically assault other people for a fixed fee. According to Radii China, "20 RMB (3 USD) gets you the standard angry phone call or WeChat message; 40 RMB (6 USD) guarantees a full day of spam calls; and 100 RMB (15 USD) blows up your target's phone with 999 hate calls."
Wow!

The quotes from Vint Cerf's missive to David are also interesting.  Seriously:  read the post, click through the links, and skim them.

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