I can't really see the difference between Politics and consumption goods.
Well, first of all-they only as good as advertising says. You buy a detergenet, an advertising promises you it deleltes all the spots, you try it- well, yeh, it's better, but your clothes is still not THAT clean as it was promised.
You vote for a politician, who assures you that he/ she helps you with the problems, well, may be it's getting better somewhere, but still, it has nothing common with what was promised.
Then, consumption goods and politicians are only the creatures of their producers.
The marketologists choose the best package for your milk, as well as image specialists chose the best suits for their politicians. The "goods" do not decide what they are, what they are talking about, or what they are doing for their consumers- they have a team for that.
So,since Politics is the same consumtion area as any other, so why don't people play the same dirthy tricks, they are playing, promoting new "whatever it is"
Looks like the start of another unmoderated socio-political experiment. Yet i wonder if twitter plans to let it go just like that. A year or so back twitter cracked down on bots and even put a daily limit to number of tweets at 1000. Has that changed then or have the bots become "smarter"...
Political dirty tricks on Twitter! Heaven forend. You'll not hear many inveigh - Is there nothing sacred?
But what I find particularly creepy is the Truthy news. Maybe it's the too facile sounding name,or the possibity of Tweets with their own Truthy Ratings.
I did an article on this a couple of years back. And, in fact, even before that. One wonders at what point there's going to be an arm of the FEC that looks for this sort of thing.
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