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byjodido ( 1052890 ) writes:
makes a decision based on an online poll, page count, or anything to do with YouTube deserves what they get.
byCharliemopps ( 1157495 ) writes:
makes a decision based on an online poll, page count, or anything to do with YouTube deserves what they get.
You simply don't understand how marketing works. I do it for a living (on the database/reporting/IT side of things)
Give me the power to do what GCHQ claims to be able to do and I could get the person of your choice elected president of the united states. You have no idea how powerful being able to manipulate page ranks would be. It would be staggering, unfathomable power. They could get any law passed, any person shunned, any insane conspiracy accepted as fact. Your control of the press would be unprecedent
byjodido ( 1052890 ) writes:
I've already seen Wagging the Dog. Science fiction. It's based on the idea that most people are very very stupid. Most people who think that never include themselves, interestingly enough.
byDr Max ( 1696200 ) writes:
not necessarily stupid, but gullible and trusting of people/businesses in certain positions (they figure they must be good if they got to where they did, and if they wern't, some one good and pure would stop them). How many people command much more respect in many more areas than they deserve, just because they have been in some blockbuster movies; in the last american elections statistical people figured out if geroge clooney made a speach in california, 60% of women over a certain age would change their vote for him (in whatever direction was wanted).
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