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The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 44 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I wonder of we'll be able to see the effects on pubic opinion. E.g. if political polling will show a noticeable change upon yandex being shut down

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If only you read the article you'd realize the "bot network" they're talking about is indexing websites so the Yandex search engine and related services can find them. The article literally gloats how "this will make the Internet slow or unusable for Russians".

But of course they knew what they were doing with the headline. Targeting Euro-Americans who think the reason their politicians are corrupt is secret Russian (or Chinese) influence and dissenting opinions on the internet are Russian bots.

Or I might just be one of the 10% of the bots that are still coming through!

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So do you think that there will be an effect on public opinion? Not necessarily limited to the west. I would expect that severely limited access to internet in Russia might affect public opinion there too

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Losing unfettered access to the western internet? That can only be beneficial.

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure what you mean. Who is losing access to the western internet? Why are they benefiting from it?

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm unaware of civilization's general impression of that population's bikini area hygiene, TBF. 🫡

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago

Oh jeez it took me a while to realise my typo haha

[–] CascadiaRo@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Either/or. I am wondering about the effects on public opinion generally

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

effects on pubic opinion

Unfortunately Russian Z-patriots are much much more hypnotized even than US MAGAs.

They need intensive deprogramming and reintroduction into civil society. Temporarily cutting off just one source of propaganda helps a little, but does not put the cancer into remission.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If religion's history as a whole is considered, they're more than likely to simply glom onto the next big lie that puts them in the in-crowd. 🧏🏼‍♂️

[–] FridaVanMercury@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They'll 100% move them somewhere else as quickly as they can.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I think we all understand the landscape isn't that simple anymore. Data centers aren't cheap and easy to spin up.