You need a Great Firewall of America. Maybe Trump can find another Chinese company to set up a branch plant in the US to do the job.
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In an ideal world we wouldn’t even need government intervention to shut Twitter down. We’d just need the people who run the company to have a moment of self realization and say “Dear God, what have we done?” just before smashing all the servers and burning the source code.
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At what point is it reasonable for May to say “It turns out the brexit vote was unsafe. Instead of causing wholesale economic havoc on the basis of a very narrow majority of voters, many of whom are now dead, let’s step back and decide if perhaps we’ve been duped before continuing.”.
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When we get adults back in power we are going to ruin everyone connected to the russian government in any way, correct?
The more I think about it, the more I realize: people are smart. Every time we design a system, the biggest rewards of that system go to the actors which devise the best way to exploit it for unintended purposes. Rinse and repeat.
Where does it end? For social media, I suspect the trend will be making communities harder to penetrate for newcomers (see: Youtube monetization changes recently). Not unlike small villages long before the internet. Rinse and repeat.
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Indeed.
However, press photographer Jamie Lorriman told The Independent the woman was clearly “traumatised” and “visibly distressed”. He said she was just one of hundreds fleeing the bridge, trying to avoid looking at the “horror surrounding them.”
“Her behaviour was completely in line with everyone else on the bridge, but you’re not assuming others are callously ignoring the scenario,” he said.
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Who better to engage in this kind of psy-ops than a bunch of ex-KGB operatives?
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To vote for Turmp or Brexit, regardless of anything else, you need a population that’s dumb enough to vote for Turmp or Brexit.
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However much influence Russia is able to wield through social media – and it’s not zero – there are clearly other forces wielding at least that much deliberate influence (Murdoch, the Daily Heil).
It’s hard to make the case that Russian interference is a problem if you’re not willing to concede that these things are also problems, and we aren’t.
If a cesspit like Russia can manipulate your population, then your problem is not Russia, it’s your rotten civic society. Britain has always enjoyed telling people they’re scum for accepting £75 per week when they lose their jobs; perhaps we should start asking what happened to the £60,000+ we spent on educating every single person who believes the country is flooded with Romanian rapists who steal our jobs while also being on the dole.
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However, she chose to do the opposite, both she and Boris stating in Parliament that there was no sign of Russian intervention in the Brexit vote.
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Result:
12,6%, no government participation
vs
51,9%, Brexit
vs
55,7%, Trump
Yeah, basically the same thing. 
… and btw “Rußlanddeutsche” =/= Russians
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Indeed. This guy makes Karl Rove and Dick Cheney look like Ed Norton and Ralph Kramden.
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Sure, Russian interference is not the root problem with either Brexit or Trump. But it’s an exacerbating factor, and much easier and quicker to tackle than the years and years of slow civic rot and media corrosion that ultimately lead to those two examples of Anglosphere bodies politic having a massive coronary of stupid.
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The reasonalble point would have been her acceptance speech after being elected PM.
So, right now, the answer is “never”.
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