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Zeynep Tufekci makes the point that we should regard oversaturation with garbage information — “flooding the zone” — as censorship in another form. Making it impossible to •speak• is not the same as making it impossible to •hear•, but many of the effects are equivalent. Noise silences.

I first heard her make this point regarding Russian disinformation in the 2016 election, but it’s an insight with much broader import. https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056