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What if the US and most other countries have always been sheepishly easy to manipulate -- but it wasn't noticeable, until modern tech like FB, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok appeared?

It seems to me that Xi in China agrees about this, in that they've blocked all those things (except for their own).

> that would reflect poorly on said politicians (because they're part of the problem).

How do you mean? That they too manipulate the population, and are part of a manipulation problem?




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