https://discordapp.com/channels/462008211378012160/622430298746912768/636287760147152897

We make a distinction at the scope and scale.

20 guys tweeting once per day for example, aint going to do much

A couple million Russian Twitter bots will.

Both argubly are foreign interference

True, but where do you draw the line exactly

Exactly, you can't exclude ALL interference with a free, global internet

Right now? If it's state actors

So it's an arbitrary line

So, either THE government or those linked to the government

Of a foreign state

I'm happy to agree with that

Obama did it.

If you tweet something I dislike you should be arrested

Saying the UK would be at the back of the queue

That was foreign interference, not something we or I want

Yeah exactly, that was interference

Yeah, we need to be limiting this kind of thing

Russian bots, IF controlled by their gov, was also interference

Generally they were run by the "internet research agency"

Which is linked to the Russian government

Need to eat, brb

If by "linked" you mean controlled by Russia then fair enough

Back

Pretty much yeah @Hopix

Things which need to be stopped else they will undermine our democracy

absolutely

Check out this: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/21/tech/russia-instagram-accounts-2020-election/index.html

They're looking to use race again

I remember the russians

the ones "New Knowledge" literally fabricated "As an experiment"

The boy has cried wolf so much im deaf to it

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html

> "But however modest, the influence effort in Alabama may be a sign of things to come. Campaign veterans in both parties fear the Russian example may set off a race to the bottom, in which candidates choose social media manipulation because they fear their opponents will."

Looks like something else we need to defend against

It's quite funny because all of this is justification as to why the general public shouldn't vote at all.

> “Some will do whatever it takes to win,” said Dan Bayens, a Kentucky-based Republican consultant. “You’ve got Russia, which showed folks how to do it, you’ve got consultants willing to engage in this type of behavior and political leaders who apparently find it futile to stop it.”

https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1186737952313004032?s=21

**YES**

inb4 they offer a 2 year extention

they'll probably do a few months