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viking_sec  •  5 Oct 2022   •    
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I read an interesting take, either in a chat with friends or on Twitter, about how, if rumors that Putin is moving nuclear weapons close to Ukraine are true, we’re going to see the Cold War play out in the Twitter era.

The idea intrigues me, not just in a morbid way, in thinking about the goods, the bads and the awfuls that would have resulted from mass social media adoption during world events. Would we have committed to World War 2 sooner when photos leaked on Twitter of the concentration camps, or later after watching video of the war’s grisly impact on our fellow man? Would the rise of popular dictators in the past be accelerated like it is in the current era of social media, or slowed as people raised awareness to the evils of authoritarian governments? Would the Cold War have been worsened by a platform that allows for demographics of uninformed morons to make their voices heard, or calmed by the possibility of cultural exchange at scale on the internet?

It’s an interesting, if also completely useless, thought experiment.

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