For anyone unfamiliar with the term:
As an example, gaslighting is when Alice and Bob had an argument. Alice slaps Bob in the face. Then, three weeks later, Bob goes back to Alice and asks "why did you slap me during that fight" and Alice would go "That never happened, Bob. You slapped me. Are you insane?"
Thus making Bob question his memory and sanity by insisting on a false narrative.
What Facebook is doing is simply trying to lure people, it doesn't mean they are trying to question their sanity.
If this is the response to mass protests I wonder which kind of protests will happen in response to this.
This is not just another great firewall of China, this is more like a nation-wide intranet. I do not believe that the Russians are as indoctrinated to this as the Chinese are.
Considering the risks of cyber warfare and attacks that are possible these days I think that it's sensible for a country, any country to be able to disconnect from the internet at the flick of the switch if needed. Russia has just implemented sensible 'cyber defenses', which I hope we also have in the West.
You and Medvedev claim this is defensive, but the capability has existed for two years. Are you expecting Russia to need to defend its Internet at the same coincidental time as these protests?
It sure does. I think to support this phenomenon, a person is likely too unimaginative to extrapolate the trend into the future, or else a loon who wants to 'let the world burn'
I hate the financial system as much as anyone else, but a world where Redditors do the manipulation seems as bad to me. I remember thinking, back when 4chan was famous for 'meat space' activism against crazy people, that it could get scary if the wind changed. It did.
I'm not sure 4 the lulz nihilists has enough capitol to do big movements. WSB jokes around about 4chan style investing, but the bulk of the people who keep up in there aren't 4chan people.
Not a lot is bad in the language since es6 (I don't know if they kept hoisting or not) but in any case I don't find any reason to put it that high above the rest :) but I was curious about your reasons mostly.