Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet, but when he was in politics we haven’t figured out how to really weaponize it for political purposes yet. It’s not bizarre moon logic, it’s active manipulation.
“Genocide” is one of those hot button terms that short-circuit people’s critical thinking whenever someone invokes it, that’s why provateuers online like tossing it about. (“Pedo” is another one, which has been in the news lately). Turns out getting lasting peace in the region is difficult and can’t be reduced to slogans…
Which, to point out, he never actually said. He said “creating” - which is actually accurate, since he pushed the policies that allowed for it to exist. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn support his stance that he was a primary driver behind its development from a policy perspective. I believe they even said no other politician has been as important to the internet (rough paraphrase, someone else can grab the exact quote) as Gore.
The claim that he said he “invented the internet” came from dirtbag pundits, of course.
It was a very, very early instance of the horseshit lie that is easy and bite-sized, and sort of reality adjacent, where anyone who’s trying to explain the reality sounds like they’re making some kind of lame excuse and is easy to shout down and dismiss. In retrospect, it should have been an all-hands-on-deck emergency to make sure that strategy didn’t work and take hold.
Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet, but when he was in politics we haven’t figured out how to really weaponize it for political purposes yet. It’s not bizarre moon logic, it’s active manipulation.
“Genocide” is one of those hot button terms that short-circuit people’s critical thinking whenever someone invokes it, that’s why provateuers online like tossing it about. (“Pedo” is another one, which has been in the news lately). Turns out getting lasting peace in the region is difficult and can’t be reduced to slogans…
Which, to point out, he never actually said. He said “creating” - which is actually accurate, since he pushed the policies that allowed for it to exist. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn support his stance that he was a primary driver behind its development from a policy perspective. I believe they even said no other politician has been as important to the internet (rough paraphrase, someone else can grab the exact quote) as Gore.
The claim that he said he “invented the internet” came from dirtbag pundits, of course.
It was a very, very early instance of the horseshit lie that is easy and bite-sized, and sort of reality adjacent, where anyone who’s trying to explain the reality sounds like they’re making some kind of lame excuse and is easy to shout down and dismiss. In retrospect, it should have been an all-hands-on-deck emergency to make sure that strategy didn’t work and take hold.