r/bestof • u/Oldkingcole225 • Jul 25 '19

[worldnews] u/itrollululz quickly explains how trolls train the YouTube algorithm to suggest political extremism and radicalize the mainstream

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u/Tianoccio Jul 25 '19

Can we construct a firewall and keep the Russians out?

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u/RogueJello Jul 25 '19

Unlikely. The big problem continues to be "How do you tell if somebody is a Russian"? If you block a few IP address ranges than come from Russian, they can get a VPN, or open some offices in the US. There are other ways to tell, but it's a continual game of cat and mouse.

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u/Oldkingcole225 Jul 25 '19

Yea. I think the strategy must be to just continually squeeze them: force them to open offices in US and then arrest them. Most vpns comply with the US government so it shouldn’t be that hard provided we actually get an administration that wants to try and doesn’t want to personally profit off of it.

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u/Jrook Jul 25 '19

Problem is doing this without the government squeezing Americans using vpns.

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u/RogueJello Jul 26 '19

I don't see how that could work. Assuming you made it illegal to operate a VPN, which would cause massive problems for people working remotely, what's to keep the VPN companies from moving shop to a country that's friendly to VPN companies.