negative campaigning?
Florian Snow
floriansnow at fsfe.org
Thu Jul 27 05:44:50 UTC 2017
Hi Daniel,
I think the question of negative campaigning is very interesting. I
would say that while pointing out flaws technically falls in the realm
of negative campaigning, it is far from what I mostly associate with the
term: Attack ads in American elections. Those are vicious and often
contain false information about opponents. That is something I would
definitely want to stay away from. :-)
The examples you listed are essentially providing truthful information
and that is something we need to do, of course. I would just try to use
hyperbole sparingly because it often distorts arguments and if used too
often, it can weaken our arguments. So I would be against calling
Facebook a "NSA approved surveillance device" outside of this list (or
other places where people usually know what I mean with something like
that), but I would point out that the NSA can access information stored
on that platform.
Happy hacking!
Florian
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