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There are no available means to counter the disinformation complex beyond a neo-Luddite avoidance of all media and social media. You can't argue with believers and it is a waste of energy to apply formal logic to any exchange in which at least one party is emotionally engaged. Artistic/aesthetic resistance via meme-warfare is possible but runs phenomenal risks as Douglass Mackey (Ricky Vaughn) has found.

We are now seemingly trapped within a giant digital pain box.

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Navigating the current internet is like taking a trip trough Chernobyl in 1986. It should be reserved to the "happy few" who have the capacity to do it. And even then they have to use an Hazmat suit.

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The Ricky Vaughn conviction and possible Restrict Act passage are the death knell for any honest thought on the internet...

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True. It is very depressing but clarity on this is important, so that people are at least aware of the conditions under which we live.

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