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Please come joins us. EU can preserve your fishing waters.
Said it once I‘ll say it again: A referendum is a really bad idea for a representative democracy in times of fake news and large misinformation campaigns. The far right loves referendums because it‘s easier to manipulate the masses around a single issue in a short period of time. And that‘s exactly why you should be suspicious of them.
While that is true, if your democracy allows lobbying or political “donations” the legislature can just as easily be influenced.
I get your point but this always has been the case. Misinformation was made into an art during WWII and hasn’t gone since. Haven’t we had any democratic decisions since?
The point is that we need to kill the misinformation, not referendums
I have expressed it once and shall repeat it again: a referendum is an atrocious idea in times of the printing press and foreign influence crusades. The royalists fancy plebiscites for it allows them to mislead the common folk into expressing the existence of the monarchy as “will of the people”. And that’s exactly why they shall not be trusted.
Oh sorry this is /c/Europe, not /c/YUROP
The same can be said for democracy in general. Disinformation is carbon monoxide in the bloodstream of civil society, and LLMs (“AI”) accelerate it.
Are there any reliable sources that LLMs accelerated disinformation? Naturally I’m on the lookout for disinformation.
For fuck sake
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What’s not to get. I’m disappointed.
It’s gonna get twisted by fascy types through misinformation and advertising so the vote ends up “don’t join EU”
And how else do you expect iceland to join when the eu requires a referendum to be had in the joinimg country? Also iceland(from what i know) has a muuuuch smaller faschism problem than most other countries in the world
the EU don’t require a referendum? Never have, probably won’t in future either.
They don’t particularly care how it gets decided as long as the request to join is officially recognised by the government of the country.
Some joined by unilateral decision by Party Voting (internal voting of the leading party)
Some joined by request of their allies
Some joined when the country reunified (East and West Germany)
Some joined by their Legal Court putting the motion into a Bill which was voted on by their Parliament
