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1. throwaway27448 · 1790505215 · focus · HN ↗

   I don't understand why countries don't simply block facebook, instagram, etc. There's zero upside to allowing them.

   1. literalAardvark · 1790505726 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm just as confused as you are.

      The economic value seems literally negative and the influence on the discourse massive and much too unpredictable.

      The recent Romanian election where a focused botnet created a pro russian candidate from thin air 2 weeks before the election _and got him elected president_ should really be proof enough that the state of things is unnatural.

      1. bamboozled · 1790513876 · focus · HN ↗

         Because western democracies are about freedom of speech and access to information ?

         1. literalAardvark · 1790522923 · focus · HN ↗

            I'm fine with that, it's primarily the finely tuned bubbles I'm against here.

            So, very approximately, ban fyp.

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