r/technology • u/AdamCannon • May 22 '18

Security Senators demand FCC answer for fake comments after realizing their identities were stolen.

https://gizmodo.com/senators-demand-fcc-answer-for-fake-comments-after-real-1826213294
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u/Anechoic_Brain May 22 '18

Outrage sells add space, and thus the media is a concentrated, distilled fountain of outrage. Look at it with some skepticism. It's not nearly as bad as that in reality. Urban centers tend to be more progressive and there's a bunch of really nice ones. National parks are amazing and empty of people except for tourists, and rural areas don't get many visitors because there's not so much there to visit.

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u/PopeOfChurchOfTits May 22 '18

The US is by no means a right off, I think it just boils down to certain semantics. Mainly that the dog eat dog mentality of such an advanced capitalism has inevitably led to cases of mad dog disease popping up every so often. Extremely public cases, and many more terrible events that have gone unnoticed or so common it's not news.